If you need general purpose functions etc., I'd imagine it could be beneficial to have them just use $_REQUEST.
You can then let your particular frontend deal with where the values came from (get/post), and sanitize the data there. Afterwards the values will be available via $_REQUEST.
Of course you could also pass the sanitized data to the functions as parameters, with no need for $_REQUEST. As always, YMMV.
The claim was made by Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock -- The Trinity Corporation, who according to a press release has been searching for the Ark for several years.
Not surprising...
They fail to mention what makes it a man-made structure. It looks like rocks to me? Did they shine a beam on it from outer space to determine it's wood or something?
My opinion, having been a Slash reader since the site's infancy, is that there's actually a fairly low level of religious knowledge amongst the learned Slashdot crowd. This tends to [unfortunately] manifest itself in haughty arrogance. QED indeed.
That's a pretty arrogant statement in itself, don't you think?
You mean to tell me that lack of religious knowledge makes people arrogant? Arrogant against people with religious beliefs perhaps, but absolutely not generally!
Nothing in the Bible has ever been disproven based on ancient findings by any reputable scientific investigation.
Oh, I see, so all of it must be true then! Or maybe it's simply because none of it happened?
Why is it, therefore, here at/. there is such open hatred for Judeo-Christian beliefs when just about anything else goes?
Personally I find religion (any religion) and religious people scary! And more so each day. Some say people are afraid of thing they don't understand, and that's probably it in this case. I can't for the world of me fathom how people can believe these fairy tales, and let them decide how they should live their lives? Perhaps someone could explain this to me?
I do know this though, religion kills more people than anything else does! Why? Because people want to make sure other people believe theirs. Two words: holy war.
This may well sound pretty nerdy to most of you, but I regard my computers as female, you know, like you do with ships. I name them too, however I don't always use female names; they're named after characters from Star Trek TNG.
I've always thought naming you're computers make them more familiar and perhaps comfortable in away, like old friends.
I live in Denmark, and the trains in our country's capital have a com system with sampled human voices that tell you where you're going, as well as give you various informational messages, etc. For years they had the same dull male voice until recently when they finally changed it to a female voice. It's funny because it's a totally different experience, like being on a mothership (think sci-fi movies).
Our new mini metro system in Copenhagen which opened about 2 years ago uses a different female voice. She's downright sexy!
Of course, all this might be related to some kind of Oedipal complex of mine or something.;-)
If the Windows help thing can be disabled or uninstalled, maybe that exploit won't have anything to exploit.
I don't know anything that can be really disabled or uninstalled on Windows. Since it's already mentioned that IE is the default handler for help files, I guess people are out of luck in this regard.
I once wanted to uninstall the games that come preinstalled with Windows. So, I got the relevant registry tweaks from support.microsoft.com to have the games displayed in the "Windows Add/Remove Programs" section. Great! Guess what happened? The shortcuts were removed, and the exe files left in place. That's apparently what Microsoft considers uninstalling to be.
I believe this is the case with the Adobe Reader plugin. I've had Mozilla presumably hang on a PDF in a tab, when it was actually the Adobe Reader application/plugin that was going 100% on the utilization of the machine. If you kill Adobe Reader, Mozilla continues just fine.
That's a bug alright, and unfortunately a longstanding one. I'm curious though? What type of effect are you trying to create by this kind of positioning with respects to form controls?
Personally I find it odd, that you would favor IE when creating complex (or even simple) CSS layout - personally I find IE lacking and frustrating in so many areas. Try taking a look at this site for example. There are some serious IE CSS positioning bugs discussed here which I can't imagine you haven't encountered? Some are misinterpretations of the W3C specs, and others just exhibit unexplainable behaviour. There are workarounds for some of them, but not all of them will leave you with valid markup. There are also some Mozilla position bugs explained there, though I don't know whether they have been fixed in the meantime.
I remember an interesting story here on slashdot about how Microsoft winning the browser war stopped the innovation with IE. Think about it? How old is IE now? This MSDN document about the CSS enhancements (box model implementation) in IE 6 is dated march 2001. That's ages ago, and now CSS2.1 - if I'm not mistaken - is the current recommendation with CSS3 around the corner. When is the IE 7 due? 2006? 2007?
A lot of other browsers like Mozilla and Opera are much more up to date, with respects to CSS, and at least with one of these browsers you can file a bug, and see it getting proper treatment and being fixed in the end.
At least one of these could apply to the new scheduler or something like that.:-)
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You mean greatly decrease page load times, surely?
Ah, yes of course... my bad! I guess I meant performance with regards to page load times in this context? Anyway, thanks for clearing this up.:-)
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The markup used for the LDP files is quite straigtforward and luckily stripped of any bloat like font tags and like, and as such I'm sympathetic to the idea of not getting involved with the presentation layer.
For most pages (ie. like/.) using CSS will greatly increase page load times when all the presentational deprecated markup is shed in favor of CSS. Much of the redundancy is gone after this treatment.
However, this is not the case with the LDP files as they are already stripped of any presentational information (*). Though, this is also an advantage in this case, as the markup then lends itself quite nicely to being used with CSS. It would still for the most part be for the eye-candy purposes (which is okay), and therefore my recommendation would be to provide the style sheets as alternate style sheets. People can choose one of the different looks if more style sheets are available, or by default stick to the tried and true look.
(*) However, when we already have this clear separation of content and presentation, it would still be possible for the doc writers to do their job like they're used to without worrying about presentation. And if I'm not mistaken, the documentation source is in docbook format - here they're not worrying about presentational stuff anyway. YMMV, of course.
I must be missing something in the enthusiasm for firefox.
Try some of the extensions like AdBlock (block flash, iframes, etc.). The extensible search engine bar is really cool to (get imdb search, DHL tracking, etc.). Not to mention the quick search feature (keyword bookmars)!
2. those numbers that they got from Chyrnobl are HUGE, but they can't happen on US Naval Reactors. Even if we were to completely melt down and spray our stuff all over the place, we would still be relatively clean (we use tiny reactors; we only need to power a 300' boat to 25+ knots, we don;t need to power an entire metropolis). besides, the most likely time that would occur is if we get hit with a depth charge, at which point's we'll sit on the bottom of the ocean and get covered with a whole hell of a lot of water!:-)
How would you compare a submarine carrying nuclear warheads in this respect?
Don't get me wrong, I'm pro nuclear (energy)! Just curious.
I somewhat RTFA. Did anybody else notice the "Anti-virus API" part (second page, no. 7 Security)? Whatever it means I wish they'd implement it in Outlook.:-)
An anti-virus API. Oh boy, this document certainly is for sales people!
A resume feature in the download manager would be a nice start...
If you double-click on each download in the Download Manager, you'll get access to pause/resume features. That feature has been there for while. Of course, in the Firefox Download Manager these features are shown up front.
It has been designed to be more modular, easier to use, and more extensible than the old installation system.
Anyway, it's still in development, and much that's being changed is happening behind the scenes. When the time comes you will see a GUI frontend, I'm sure! Of course, it doesn't stop there.
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Heh, but of course! :-)
Anyway, best to still treat all input as tainted (the Perl way) and regexp match for what is expected; bail out if anything weird is encountered.
zPeople! Remember the quotes! Do:
delete from table where id = '$var'
Not:
delete from table where id = $var
Try for $var = "10 and id = 11 and id = 12 ...".
zIf you need general purpose functions etc., I'd imagine it could be beneficial to have them just use $_REQUEST.
You can then let your particular frontend deal with where the values came from (get/post), and sanitize the data there. Afterwards the values will be available via $_REQUEST.
Of course you could also pass the sanitized data to the functions as parameters, with no need for $_REQUEST. As always, YMMV.
zNot surprising...
They fail to mention what makes it a man-made structure. It looks like rocks to me? Did they shine a beam on it from outer space to determine it's wood or something?
If I believed in little gray men from Mars, I would certainly jump on this image of the Face on Mars as proof too.
zThat's a pretty arrogant statement in itself, don't you think?
You mean to tell me that lack of religious knowledge makes people arrogant? Arrogant against people with religious beliefs perhaps, but absolutely not generally!
zOh, I see, so all of it must be true then! Or maybe it's simply because none of it happened?
Why is it, therefore, here atPersonally I find religion (any religion) and religious people scary! And more so each day. Some say people are afraid of thing they don't understand, and that's probably it in this case. I can't for the world of me fathom how people can believe these fairy tales, and let them decide how they should live their lives? Perhaps someone could explain this to me?
I do know this though, religion kills more people than anything else does! Why? Because people want to make sure other people believe theirs. Two words: holy war.
zThis may well sound pretty nerdy to most of you, but I regard my computers as female, you know, like you do with ships. I name them too, however I don't always use female names; they're named after characters from Star Trek TNG.
I've always thought naming you're computers make them more familiar and perhaps comfortable in away, like old friends.
I live in Denmark, and the trains in our country's capital have a com system with sampled human voices that tell you where you're going, as well as give you various informational messages, etc. For years they had the same dull male voice until recently when they finally changed it to a female voice. It's funny because it's a totally different experience, like being on a mothership (think sci-fi movies).
Our new mini metro system in Copenhagen which opened about 2 years ago uses a different female voice. She's downright sexy!
Of course, all this might be related to some kind of Oedipal complex of mine or something. ;-)
z... was because Seth MacFarlane's old school headmaster got the sponsors of the show to pull out.
Of course it's total BS, but he's the real person to blame for this, not the Fox execs, as such. What could they do? No money, no deal, right?
BTW, Family Guy rocks! Go Family Guy! :-)
zI don't know anything that can be really disabled or uninstalled on Windows. Since it's already mentioned that IE is the default handler for help files, I guess people are out of luck in this regard.
I once wanted to uninstall the games that come preinstalled with Windows. So, I got the relevant registry tweaks from support.microsoft.com to have the games displayed in the "Windows Add/Remove Programs" section. Great! Guess what happened? The shortcuts were removed, and the exe files left in place. That's apparently what Microsoft considers uninstalling to be.
zI believe this is the case with the Adobe Reader plugin. I've had Mozilla presumably hang on a PDF in a tab, when it was actually the Adobe Reader application/plugin that was going 100% on the utilization of the machine. If you kill Adobe Reader, Mozilla continues just fine.
This has happened to me a couple of times.
zThat's a bug alright, and unfortunately a longstanding one. I'm curious though? What type of effect are you trying to create by this kind of positioning with respects to form controls?
Personally I find it odd, that you would favor IE when creating complex (or even simple) CSS layout - personally I find IE lacking and frustrating in so many areas. Try taking a look at this site for example. There are some serious IE CSS positioning bugs discussed here which I can't imagine you haven't encountered? Some are misinterpretations of the W3C specs, and others just exhibit unexplainable behaviour. There are workarounds for some of them, but not all of them will leave you with valid markup. There are also some Mozilla position bugs explained there, though I don't know whether they have been fixed in the meantime.
Another classic IE CSS1 bug as shown by the Complexspiral demo.
I remember an interesting story here on slashdot about how Microsoft winning the browser war stopped the innovation with IE. Think about it? How old is IE now? This MSDN document about the CSS enhancements (box model implementation) in IE 6 is dated march 2001. That's ages ago, and now CSS2.1 - if I'm not mistaken - is the current recommendation with CSS3 around the corner. When is the IE 7 due? 2006? 2007?
A lot of other browsers like Mozilla and Opera are much more up to date, with respects to CSS, and at least with one of these browsers you can file a bug, and see it getting proper treatment and being fixed in the end.
zAh yes, buzzword are cool! The buzzword generator gave me these today:
"Phased scalable open architecture"
"Phased upward-trending emulation"
"Assimilated responsive structure"
"Front-line optimizing capability"
At least one of these could apply to the new scheduler or something like that. :-)
zAh, yes of course ... my bad! I guess I meant performance with regards to page load times in this context? Anyway, thanks for clearing this up. :-)
zThe markup used for the LDP files is quite straigtforward and luckily stripped of any bloat like font tags and like, and as such I'm sympathetic to the idea of not getting involved with the presentation layer.
For most pages (ie. like /.) using CSS will greatly increase page load times when all the presentational deprecated markup is shed in favor of CSS. Much of the redundancy is gone after this treatment.
However, this is not the case with the LDP files as they are already stripped of any presentational information (*). Though, this is also an advantage in this case, as the markup then lends itself quite nicely to being used with CSS. It would still for the most part be for the eye-candy purposes (which is okay), and therefore my recommendation would be to provide the style sheets as alternate style sheets. People can choose one of the different looks if more style sheets are available, or by default stick to the tried and true look.
(*) However, when we already have this clear separation of content and presentation, it would still be possible for the doc writers to do their job like they're used to without worrying about presentation. And if I'm not mistaken, the documentation source is in docbook format - here they're not worrying about presentational stuff anyway. YMMV, of course.
zOh, I'm aware of the safety features (for US nukes anyway)! I assure you, it was meant as a hypothetical quetion. :-)
zTry some of the extensions like AdBlock (block flash, iframes, etc.). The extensible search engine bar is really cool to (get imdb search, DHL tracking, etc.). Not to mention the quick search feature (keyword bookmars)!
z2. those numbers that they got from Chyrnobl are HUGE, but they can't happen on US Naval Reactors. Even if we were to completely melt down and spray our stuff all over the place, we would still be relatively clean (we use tiny reactors; we only need to power a 300' boat to 25+ knots, we don;t need to power an entire metropolis). besides, the most likely time that would occur is if we get hit with a depth charge, at which point's we'll sit on the bottom of the ocean and get covered with a whole hell of a lot of water! :-)
How would you compare a submarine carrying nuclear warheads in this respect?
Don't get me wrong, I'm pro nuclear (energy)! Just curious.
zI somewhat RTFA. Did anybody else notice the "Anti-virus API" part (second page, no. 7 Security)? Whatever it means I wish they'd implement it in Outlook. :-)
An anti-virus API. Oh boy, this document certainly is for sales people!
zIf you double-click on each download in the Download Manager, you'll get access to pause/resume features. That feature has been there for while. Of course, in the Firefox Download Manager these features are shown up front.
zAnd then when you're feverishly clicking away at the pop-up window's close button, it suddenly says: "Greeeeeat! 5000 it is!".
Those commercials are actually quite funny. :-)
zCome on, it has been stated multiple times that the new Debian installer, when done, can easily be hooked up to a fancy GUI frontend!
From the "About the Debian Installer" page:Anyway, it's still in development, and much that's being changed is happening behind the scenes. When the time comes you will see a GUI frontend, I'm sure! Of course, it doesn't stop there.
z1 percent, and I still don't have a problem feeling lucky almost every time I do a search on google.
zGenerally, you'd need a clueless carbon unit to accomplish that. They're not hard to find.
zWFM. You could always check the browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick setting in about:config or use ctrl+click?
zAye, a reference to Guybrush Threepwood? Arrrr, matey!
Ha, you've already posted a comment, so try moderating me now! Oh, so it was a Jedi mind trick, huh? Silly! :-)
LeChuck