I hate to say it, but the problem exists between keyboard and chair. PHP is not inherently secure or insecure language.
Well, unless I misparsed the grandparent correctly, it didn't imply that at all; it said "It is not a good thing that there is a short learning curve on PHP"- implication, the ease of use is the problem, as opposed to "PHP is insecure".
No; they were involved in a mangling accident and came out half an inch thick.
You're lucky to even be able to turn on a computer, being British.
Yeah, that Turing guy sure was stupid when it came to computers.
Most Brits I've known had a touch of the Downe syndrome, and weren't even able to tie their own shoes.
Ah; I see you've met the Royal Family then. Yes, they *are* stupid; but they're also just f*****g lazy. I don't know where you come from and frankly I don't care; you can keep them, just so long as you promise not to send them back.
That's why I never liked Austin Powers or the other Bond parodies: They're just too obvious.
Or inaccurate; Bond was *never* remotely "swinging sixties" or "groovy" in anything like that manner. Guy Hamilton, one of the Bond directors, criticised Austin Powers for this, pointing out that Bond was *always* an establishment figure. (I remember myself in one early Bond film- Goldfinger I think it was- Bond made a disparaging remark about the Beatles).
In many respects, I feel that Bond is closer to establishment-1950s than the 1960s. Definitely not Carnaby Street.
Personally, I rather liked 'The Living Daylights' because it shed the excessively parodic/jokey feel of many of the Moore films whilst still retaining the soul of the Bond films (unlike 'License to Kill', which didn't feel like a Bond film at all).
You don't consider Sean Connery a *regular* Bond actor?
He'd left the series to be replaced by Roger Moore, so at the time, no he wasn't a "regular" Bond actor.
If nothing else, he was too old at the time (although not much older than Moore IIRC; Moore was *definitely* too old by the time he did A View To A Kill). Since the film was tongue-in-cheek, they made fun of this, but it still sucked.
If Kill Bill Vol.1 is anything to go by (haven't seen part 2), a Tarantino Bond would by excessively self-referential, overly unrealistic and up its own arse, albeit in a well-made way.
That scenario reminds me of that endless lawsuit between the guy who wrote the screenplay for "Thunderball" and claimed he owned the theatrical version of James Bond.
Which, incidentally, is how the "unofficial" 1983 Bond film "Never Say Never Again" got made. I assume that the makers didn't have the rights to the things innovated for the (Eon) Bond films themselves, and obviously not the regular actors, which is why it was such a good film (cough).
The floppy issue would still have been the same now as it was in 1998.
Nowadays we have USB key-'drives' and broadband is quite common, not to mention writable CDs (at a *cheap* price); we didn't then. I don't believe that Apple's omission of the floppy made much difference to the success of these.
I believe that the floppy is on its last legs because the 'carrot' of alternatives is finally covering the small but important niche floppy held (as mainstream storage it *was* obselete by '98, but it was still the best alternative for recovering a system/transferring moderately-sized Word files), not because of Apple's 'stick'. What was the real alternative at that time?
Dell is *not* behind the curve. I'd say they're pretty much *on* it, and Apple were trying way too hard to be modern back then.
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Oh man, it's too bad the parent got knocked down to -1, Troll. It should be +5 Funny.
while I've been sitting in the IP-ban corner for the last three weeks, I've discovered females. FEMALES.
Well done! Granted, most of us reach this stage before our 38th birthdays, but still...
Take a shower and clean your teeth, go outside
Again, well done. I should point out, however, that you're supposed to do this more than once. I'm sure that you smell better than you did before, but frankly, taking a shower every time the neighbors complain isn't going to cut it with the girls.
Some people were aghast at the absence of the floppy drive. Now that Dell has embraced the idea of computers without floppy drives,
That doesn't mean shit; the original floppy-less iMac came out in *1998*. Now, the omission of the floppy drive could be justified nowadays (assuming you can boot from the USB key), but 1998 was a long time ago, and I think the decision was wrong at the time.
The fact that the majority of (original) iMacs I've seen had an external drive would seem to bear this out.
I was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum boy myself, all 48K of goodness that it entailed.
If anyone starts getting nostalgic about the Spectrum's sound "capabilities" (1-channel "beep", tied up the CPU, inaudible speaker under the damn thing), I'll personally come round to their house and bludgeon them to death with a 16K ZX81 ram-pack.
Or like calling your for-pay DRM music service "Napster."
Well said; I got sick of hearing about the "relaunch" of Napster. Name aside, it has no more in common with the original than any other pay-for-DRM music service.
Napster was a cultural phenomenon, but its time is long passed. The true Napster kitty is dead. The one doing the rounds just now bought the original's corpse, cut off its face Silence-of-the-Lambs-style and is wandering around wearing the tattered visage over its own.
Ugh, gross.
Actually, that was a pretty damn cool logo though.
Sounds kinda like those advertisements for the latest kids toy...batteries not included.
Do they still do that in the US? That used to be the case in Britain years ago (ie when I was a kid), but nowadays virtually *everything* comes with batteries, even cheap-ass goods (albeit in such cases the batteries are usually "Tochiba" or "Hichabi").
A Hardley (sic) is the world's best selling motorized wheelchair for hippies
You mean former-hippies from California who had rich parents to subsidise their basically self-indulgent middle-class take on the whole counter-culture thing (and I'm sure that at the time they were deluded enough to think that they meant it)? The same types who went on to become the uber-capitalists they were always destined to be (I won't call them sell-outs because they were never genuinely buy-ins) but still "retain" their hippie "roots"?
The same types that admen market expensive Audi cars to in psychedelically-coloured adverts, "inspired by Jimi Hendrix"?
In other words, those responsible for promoting the 1960s as *the* decade, those that would never admit they are growing old, but indicating otherwise by clinging to an idealised past that never truly existed (yep, you know you're old when Jimi Hendix inspires you to buy a new car instead of a new guitar)?
Let's cut this rant short with the general ambience I'm trying to create:-
Ben and Jerry's hippy ice cream, brought to you in horrendously overpriced "cute" little tubs by the conglomerate they happily sold out to, naming their ice cream after Jerry Garcia.
To his credit, he doesn't write the dialers themselves. He just writes generalized billing systems
Yeah. For a second there, I thought your friend sounded like an unscrupulous piece of shit, but knowing that he doesn't actually write the diallers themselves has given me new respect for him.
What's your point exactly? This sounds like a lame excuse to absolve someone of responsibility for supporting behavior of dubious legality and even more dubious morality.
Guess what? A good case could be made that some people might *want* to pay premium phone rates to access some good quality porn via a dialler. If other people and their backup team (your 'friend') abuse this capability, whose responsibility is that then?
Veering offtopic, but... I just want to say here; worst screen-"saver" ever:-
Asteroids.
As in an accurate simulation of the classic 1979 arcade game in 'attract' mode when no-one is playing it.
If ever there was a game less likely to "save" your screen, it's Asteroids. All the machines I saw (admittedly quite a few years old at the time) had really obvious CRT-burn where the same letters/patterns appeared on the screen at the same place.
Still, who the heck actually uses them as screensavers these days?
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I hate to say it, but the problem exists between keyboard and chair. PHP is not inherently secure or insecure language.
Well, unless I misparsed the grandparent correctly, it didn't imply that at all; it said "It is not a good thing that there is a short learning curve on PHP"- implication, the ease of use is the problem, as opposed to "PHP is insecure".
It very clearly explained on the original Austin Powers DVD
Fair enough; I thought the film sucked when I saw a bit of it on TV, so why would I watch the DVD? (^_^)
Flatmates? Ahem, well you must be British
No; they were involved in a mangling accident and came out half an inch thick.
You're lucky to even be able to turn on a computer, being British.
Yeah, that Turing guy sure was stupid when it came to computers.
Most Brits I've known had a touch of the Downe syndrome, and weren't even able to tie their own shoes.
Ah; I see you've met the Royal Family then. Yes, they *are* stupid; but they're also just f*****g lazy. I don't know where you come from and frankly I don't care; you can keep them, just so long as you promise not to send them back.
That's why I never liked Austin Powers or the other Bond parodies: They're just too obvious.
Or inaccurate; Bond was *never* remotely "swinging sixties" or "groovy" in anything like that manner. Guy Hamilton, one of the Bond directors, criticised Austin Powers for this, pointing out that Bond was *always* an establishment figure. (I remember myself in one early Bond film- Goldfinger I think it was- Bond made a disparaging remark about the Beatles).
In many respects, I feel that Bond is closer to establishment-1950s than the 1960s. Definitely not Carnaby Street.
Personally, I rather liked 'The Living Daylights' because it shed the excessively parodic/jokey feel of many of the Moore films whilst still retaining the soul of the Bond films (unlike 'License to Kill', which didn't feel like a Bond film at all).
You don't consider Sean Connery a *regular* Bond actor?
He'd left the series to be replaced by Roger Moore, so at the time, no he wasn't a "regular" Bond actor.
If nothing else, he was too old at the time (although not much older than Moore IIRC; Moore was *definitely* too old by the time he did A View To A Kill). Since the film was tongue-in-cheek, they made fun of this, but it still sucked.
If Kill Bill Vol.1 is anything to go by (haven't seen part 2), a Tarantino Bond would by excessively self-referential, overly unrealistic and up its own arse, albeit in a well-made way.
That scenario reminds me of that endless lawsuit between the guy who wrote the screenplay for "Thunderball" and claimed he owned the theatrical version of James Bond.
Which, incidentally, is how the "unofficial" 1983 Bond film "Never Say Never Again" got made. I assume that the makers didn't have the rights to the things innovated for the (Eon) Bond films themselves, and obviously not the regular actors, which is why it was such a good film (cough).
The floppy issue would still have been the same now as it was in 1998.
Nowadays we have USB key-'drives' and broadband is quite common, not to mention writable CDs (at a *cheap* price); we didn't then. I don't believe that Apple's omission of the floppy made much difference to the success of these.
I believe that the floppy is on its last legs because the 'carrot' of alternatives is finally covering the small but important niche floppy held (as mainstream storage it *was* obselete by '98, but it was still the best alternative for recovering a system/transferring moderately-sized Word files), not because of Apple's 'stick'. What was the real alternative at that time?
Dell is *not* behind the curve. I'd say they're pretty much *on* it, and Apple were trying way too hard to be modern back then.
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I'm glad to see you kept it simple for the novices.
That's not code; that's h4x0r-5p33K on mind-altering drugs.
Oh man, it's too bad the parent got knocked down to -1, Troll. It should be +5 Funny.
while I've been sitting in the IP-ban corner for the last three weeks, I've discovered females. FEMALES.
Well done! Granted, most of us reach this stage before our 38th birthdays, but still...
Take a shower and clean your teeth, go outside
Again, well done. I should point out, however, that you're supposed to do this more than once. I'm sure that you smell better than you did before, but frankly, taking a shower every time the neighbors complain isn't going to cut it with the girls.
Suck on it, you faggots.
Dude, make up your mind. Are you gay or not?
Most folks I know would just toss the clothes drier when it started making funny noises.
Frankly, I'm not even sure that my flatmates know you're meant to clean the filter every time you use it.
the HooverMac sucks
The hooverMac sucks, the hoverMac blows!- which is how it keeps that display in place.
Some people were aghast at the absence of the floppy drive. Now that Dell has embraced the idea of computers without floppy drives,
That doesn't mean shit; the original floppy-less iMac came out in *1998*. Now, the omission of the floppy drive could be justified nowadays (assuming you can boot from the USB key), but 1998 was a long time ago, and I think the decision was wrong at the time.
The fact that the majority of (original) iMacs I've seen had an external drive would seem to bear this out.
I was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum boy myself, all 48K of goodness that it entailed.
If anyone starts getting nostalgic about the Spectrum's sound "capabilities" (1-channel "beep", tied up the CPU, inaudible speaker under the damn thing), I'll personally come round to their house and bludgeon them to death with a 16K ZX81 ram-pack.
8.9 metres? And that's a portable walkman is it? What will these wacky foreigners think of next? :)
(Says nothing, but picks up oddly-shaped stick-Walkman and starts beating Delibes about the head with it).
Oh right. Like I said, I never owned a commodore. I'm 21 and I didn't get into computers untill I got an LCII 12 years ago.
That's no excuse; you could have played with one while you were still in the womb.
Hmm. Maybe not. Anyway, it would have been dated even then.
Or like calling your for-pay DRM music service "Napster."
Well said; I got sick of hearing about the "relaunch" of Napster. Name aside, it has no more in common with the original than any other pay-for-DRM music service.
Napster was a cultural phenomenon, but its time is long passed. The true Napster kitty is dead. The one doing the rounds just now bought the original's corpse, cut off its face Silence-of-the-Lambs-style and is wandering around wearing the tattered visage over its own.
Ugh, gross.
Actually, that was a pretty damn cool logo though.
Ben & Jerry's is one of the most socially and environmentally responsible corporations
Hmm. Didn't Ben and Jerry's stop using free range eggs after a while?
In general, your Monitor will not run linux.
Yeah, but it won't be that long before someone hacks their super-sophisticated 2006-era monitor to run Linux by itself.
That's kind of meaningless; musical birthday cards will probably have enough power to run Linux by that time too...
Sounds kinda like those advertisements for the latest kids toy...batteries not included.
Do they still do that in the US? That used to be the case in Britain years ago (ie when I was a kid), but nowadays virtually *everything* comes with batteries, even cheap-ass goods (albeit in such cases the batteries are usually "Tochiba" or "Hichabi").
All i do is write perl scripts, jerk off, and read slashdot, why should I buy this? ;P
I like the moderation for this one:-
Score:3, Informative
Mmmm. Technically, I guess it must be...
A Hardley (sic) is the world's best selling motorized wheelchair for hippies
You mean former-hippies from California who had rich parents to subsidise their basically self-indulgent middle-class take on the whole counter-culture thing (and I'm sure that at the time they were deluded enough to think that they meant it)? The same types who went on to become the uber-capitalists they were always destined to be (I won't call them sell-outs because they were never genuinely buy-ins) but still "retain" their hippie "roots"?
The same types that admen market expensive Audi cars to in psychedelically-coloured adverts, "inspired by Jimi Hendrix"?
In other words, those responsible for promoting the 1960s as *the* decade, those that would never admit they are growing old, but indicating otherwise by clinging to an idealised past that never truly existed (yep, you know you're old when Jimi Hendix inspires you to buy a new car instead of a new guitar)?
Let's cut this rant short with the general ambience I'm trying to create:-
Ben and Jerry's hippy ice cream, brought to you in horrendously overpriced "cute" little tubs by the conglomerate they happily sold out to, naming their ice cream after Jerry Garcia.
Won't this move online porn into the realm of disgusting?
Not unless they increase the scan resolution *and* use good quality lenses. Oh, and use less compression.
Anyway, most online porn *is* disgusting and/or downright boring.
To his credit, he doesn't write the dialers themselves. He just writes generalized billing systems
Yeah. For a second there, I thought your friend sounded like an unscrupulous piece of shit, but knowing that he doesn't actually write the diallers themselves has given me new respect for him.
What's your point exactly? This sounds like a lame excuse to absolve someone of responsibility for supporting behavior of dubious legality and even more dubious morality.
Guess what? A good case could be made that some people might *want* to pay premium phone rates to access some good quality porn via a dialler. If other people and their backup team (your 'friend') abuse this capability, whose responsibility is that then?
despite screensavers being redundant
Veering offtopic, but... I just want to say here; worst screen-"saver" ever:-
Asteroids.
As in an accurate simulation of the classic 1979 arcade game in 'attract' mode when no-one is playing it.
If ever there was a game less likely to "save" your screen, it's Asteroids. All the machines I saw (admittedly quite a few years old at the time) had really obvious CRT-burn where the same letters/patterns appeared on the screen at the same place.
Still, who the heck actually uses them as screensavers these days?
BTW; yeah, your theory *is* pretty accurate.
I'm not seeing the true benefit of having a "Certified Hacker Certificate"?
Damn, you know it's a shoddy qualification when the people running it can't even spell. Everyone knows it's 'c3r7ipHi3d h4x0R5 53R7IPhiK473'.