Just that the default USED to allow you to easily to do stuff that was not secure. Just accepting user input straight into your code as trusted is NOT a failure of PHP but of the developer. Sure, you could write an architecture that holds your hand, but PHP was meant as a template language, to get things done simply and cheaply. That people started to use it for heavy coding without learning basic security first is NOT the fault of the language. I can make the same basic mistakes in any language (yes, I am aware that this is not something to boast about).
PHP gets a lot of its bad rep from A: packages written in it that ignored basic security and B: upset Java.NET [flavor of the day language] that are upset their languages don't get the same love and attention.
It seems odd to me that despite all the supposed hate for PHP, a lot of software still gets written in it. Sounds like the detractors are suffering from a case of sour grapes. Show me the Ruby on Rails Wiki, the.NET forum, the perl webshop that is actually being used by anybody.
There are plenty of good sites that tell you how to code a secure web site. In any language. Don't complain about PHP if you can't handle it. Is it the languages fault you forget to check user input? Or don't understand variable scope?
I have come to the conclusion that those who can't handle straight PHP or Javascript just aren't that good at coding. Because a good coder can use any language AND make full use of its unique features. If you try to turn javascript into a java like language for instance, you are NOT using the full power of javascript. Why not?
Made by MS itself, free with the OS, that documents EVERY single aspect of the OS. Or even AN aspect of the OS.
Thank you.
Point me to a MS run wiki for Windows 7 that even comes close to the support you get for Ubuntu.
People always clame opensource lacks documentation, but MS documents nothing, they had to be ordered by courts to do it and came close to contempt of court because of their poor attempts at it.
SHOW me the documentation of.NET/ASP that comes close to the PHP site? RUN by MS, not some third party.
If you censor the entire net, then you DO shutdown the pedo sites. If you lock up everyone who isn't a right wing american KKK card carrier, then you do lock up the traitors. If you ban all Muslims and Muslim symphatizers from the US, you ban the Muslim terrorists as well (you still keep the abortion clinic bombers and seperatists and other home grown nutters).
THAT is the problem. The holocaust and WW2 did solve the German unemployment problem.
The REAL question is NOT to ask wether a measure will solve the problem but at what cost it comes.
Simply put. More kids are killed in traffic then by pedo's. Solution, ban cars. Why doesn't this get proposed? Because nobody wants to surrender their SUV with cattle bar for those hellish suburban roads.
We CAN hunt down pedo websites. BUT what is the price? Is the loss of freedom of speech and freedom of information worth saving a few kids? Yes? Then hand in your cars keys today... AH, thought so. You want to save a handful of kids from predators but not thousands from car accidents.
Same with 9/11 and the war against terror. We CAN stop the terrorists, but is it worth the total collapse of privacy and ruining internation trade and exchange of ideas?
Is the war on drugs worth Mexico being the latest country to slide into civil war? Locking up people who are just addicted enough to risk life in jail for smoking a joint for the 3rd time?
With extreme measures, we can solve all the worlds problems. But is it worth it?
So "That's why it's so important to not believe every person who can describe the problem, but rather look at their proposed solutions and see if they actually help, or will take you somewhere you don't want to go."
It is that last bit that is the important thing. Not wether it will help. That is easy enough. But do we want to life in that kind of world.
And that is hard. It requires people who value freedom of speech to defend smut peddlers like Larry Flynt. Not because they are pro-porn but because you either stand for freedom of speech for all or for none. Because if you allow stuff to be banned because it upsets people, you end up banning everything because everything upsets someone.
But that is VERY hard to sell. It is like argueing about the evils of various religious institutions in a religious country. Once a mere questioning of religious practices could get you in serious trouble. Thank god the Catholic and other churces have lost a lot of power and you can't simply be put to death for questioning the pope.
Right now you can just be cast out for daring to question the wrongness of child porn crusaders. Question this minister and you are automatically pro-pedo. A brave man/woman who dares to risk that. And so he gets away with it.
Remember that one? Where IQ measures some intelligence, EQ measures someone emotional intelligence. Very roughly said, those with an high IQ tend to have low EQ's. And vice versa. That at least is the stereotypes both groups would like to label on each other.
Now, are all engineers highly intelligent? No. Does it mean all engineers have less developed social skills? No. BUT if I want to find socially awkward people, people that don't fit in, that feel left out, who lack social empathy with others, who tend to divide the world into us and them (or me and them) I would look in an IT department or a technical college before a teaching hospital. You don't go looking for people who hate kittens at your local animal shelter do you?
And terrorists NEED people who don't fit in. Why is Islamic terrorism not nearly as popular as you would think by the number of Muslim youth who in some polls indicate they hate everything western? Because they might well do, if asked with the right sort of leading question, BUT they don't hate it enough to end their own lives, kill their friends or at least people they know and don't want to actively hurt. You might hate the US, might be pro-Palestine but that does NOT mean you can just blow up a bomb strapped to yourself sitting next to a kid.
When you look at the "engineers" that this article talks about, it isn't hard to see that these weren't the kind of guys that broke the stereotype of the loner engineer who can't make friends. The detroit bomber has had a lot of his history published and boy, does he fit the profile. Rich kid from a macho culture upset with his parents who goes abroad and comes into a culture were his race and religion are... well there is no polite way to say it, so fill it in yourself. How is a black socially akward muslim with a huge status change regarded in England? Don't forget where the german Rotte Armee faction recruited from. Not socialist worker families, but kids of upper middle class. Nothing like the misfit for some radicalism. Give them a place where they feel welcome and are told that they don't fit in with everyone else because everyone else is wrong.
It works, it is basic reqruitement and has been done throughout the ages. Every army recruiter works on the principe of talking an unsure kid into a army career by promising him certainties.
The lack of social skills being a major part of radicalism shows clearly when you compare those immigrants that have settled in and those that haven't. What came first, are the ones better at the language because they fit in, or do they fit better because they are better at the language OR rather COMMUNICATING in the local language? The better you are capable of dealing with strangers, the less strange they will become. Wanna bet these engineer terrorist stood in the corner at the first day of university?
Oh, sure, some here are going to be upset. They know themselves to be socially akward engineers but claim they are not terrorists. No, because nobody recruited you. And you did fit in because of your skin color and cultural background. I have been a foreigner myself and people mean well, but it can be so easy forget to speak slow or even in English. And maybe an invite is missed for an event and nobody meant to exclude that crazy black guy who never talks to anyone but it happened. And an outcast is born.
What I find intresting in the slashdot summary is that the author is basically saying "The most makes some interesting points (translation, I agree with them) and some suspect ones (translation, they upset me)". Sorry. life don't work that way.
The reason this is upsetting is because it means WE bred these western terrorists. And that the old bleeding heart mantra of "just give them the same chances" just doesn't work. Is racism or religious intolerance to blame? Maybe, a bit. But the real problem is that all the world cultures have really great difficulty in recognizing the severity of a culture clash. A large part of it is that those who would
Ikea should dump the furniture and just sell the boxes.
Expensive cat tower... meh
Box it came in: best thing ever!
Ideal cat furniture, warmed, small, high up, in sunbeam...
How this translate to humans? Like human could possible want to sit ina nice comfy warm spot in the sun with a great lookout on the world around us... oh wait.
Gelatin might sound better then horse bone jelly but we all know that is what it really is. So there is no hiding going on. Anymore then "eggs" is hiding "unborn children pooped out by a maggot eating flightless bird".
But this is RENAMING a product that has a bad name, to try to hide it. It is like BP renaming itself to "American Petroleum" to avoid the bad publishity.
There is nothing unhealthy about the products you mention (as far as I know), it is just labelling that has always been there. Honestly in labeling doesn't mean companies have to use the worsed description possible for their products. Even an apple (the fruit, not the company) would sound bad. Dying plant embroyo covered with (insect foot prints and drool/pesticide). Yummy!
Somehow I am not impressed when someone goes from absolute last to second last. It STILL is beaten by Opera, Chrome and Safari... so it beat Firefox which is the browser best known for its extensibility rather then speed by stripping itself down... So it becomes Chrome rather then Firefox, but then looses to Chrome.
oh, and it only work with hardware acceleration, only on windows and then only on recent versions of windows. ALL its competitors run on Windows XP with no trouble AND do it faster. So MS can't get a fast browser on its own OS THAT IT STILL SELLS!
My god, is our opinion of IE really THAT low that we find this impressive?
Oh and cue all the MS fanboys who will explain that IE9 can't run on XP because it needs X and yet all its competitors can do it. And run on Linux and OSX to boot...
IE is that special kid in class, who wins a price not for coming in first, but because everyone is special in their own way. Even if they eat the chalk.
MS, if you want to change the perceptions of your crappy software, do a FORCED upgrade on ALL your still used OS'es to IE9. Stop hiding behind excuses and repair the damage you did to paying customers with IE6. You got plenty of money to do it, so there are no excuses. Rid the world of IE6 and I might even buy an xbox... Nah
I can't follow you outside slashdot unless YOU make that possible. I don't know who you are. I can search your posts by your username because YOU choose to create an account and post under that account. I can't see what posts you made as an AC. Or what moderations you have done.
All your actions outside posts made under your account are unknown to me, unless YOU somehow share them AND link them to this account. You could be Obama for all I know, or be Lady Gaga. Now, I could google your nickname, but that only works if you used the same nick somewhere else.
It is possible to analyse all your posts and from them deduce a profile based on your style of writing. To be fair for the average slashdot poster that would put their location as "nearest kindergarden" but it might be possible to trace you to a specific location.
BUT that is because YOU choose to link all your posts together.
On the other hand, in the real world, I can't go invisible when I leave my house. So my neighbours know when I come and when I go. The supermarket can tell what I am doing by what I am buying. The bookshop knows my reading habbits (you sicko, is their personalized greeting) etc etc.
So, why do people worry about their online visibitlity where you can be a million different people, when everyone and their dog knows your offline person and what it is doing?
If you ever lived in a small community, you are used to it and you know, if the community is good, then it is a benefit. Neighbours actually stopped an attempted burglary because they knew I was away and saw movement so knew it couldn't be okay when I was younger and lived in a "village" that was about a dozen houses. In Amsterdam I had a neighbour discovered after the smell from the rotting corpse finally drifted into the hallway. All I knew was that the previous resident had moved and nobody ever noticed the new person moving in.
Don't complain about invasion of privacy is you broadcast every fart you make to the entire world. It is like saying "how dare people look at me when I streak down the high street".
Sir Humphrey: "You know what happens: nice young lady comes up to you. Obviously you want to create a good impression, you don't want to look a fool, do you? So she starts asking you some questions: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the number of young people without jobs?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a lack of discipline in our Comprehensive schools?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Do you think young people welcome some authority and leadership in their lives?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Do you think they respond to a challenge?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Would you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?" Bernard Woolley: "Oh...well, I suppose I might be." Sir Humphrey: "Yes or no?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Of course you would, Bernard. After all you told you can't say no to that. So they don't mention the first five questions and they publish the last one." Bernard Woolley: "Is that really what they do?" Sir Humphrey: "Well, not the reputable ones no, but there aren't many of those. So alternatively the young lady can get the opposite result." Bernard Woolley: "How?" Sir Humphrey: "Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the growth of armaments?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Do you think it is wrong to force people to take up arms against their will?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Would you oppose the reintroduction of National Service?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "There you are, you see Bernard. The perfect balanced sample."
Good, that means a world were people could still code. Were people didn't jump on to the latest flavor language/framework because they want auto-generated code that takes a super computer to run. Sorry but Java and.NET are to me NOT the holy pinacles of coding achievement. They are usuable languages that unfortunally have gotten overloaded by people who use them not to code but rather to not code. Just click on wizards and generate code.
With a shift to Javascript, people might actually have to start thinking about cpu cycles again. Optimizations rather then bloat.
Yes in some ways everything old is new again and maybe that is because a text editor really shouldn't use gigs of memory. Maybe the future is in small apps that do one thing well and do it cost effective. Gosh, if only there was an OS based on this philosophy.
I see the move to the browser as a move to be OS and device independent. Gmail works EVERYWHERE. It does everything I need it to do and as an extra bonus I can use it anywhere. No more Windows, Linux, OS-X requirement. No more version differences or installs or license keys. Just fire up any browser and my mail is there.
Same with google docs. Sure sure, it don't do everything Office or even OpenOffice does, but I don't use 99% of the features. And for not confusing me with features I do not need and want, it again has freed me from hardware and OS, and I can access it anywhere. Crashed HD? No worry to me.
Yes, there are downsides, but frankly the recent 20 years of needing a super sized OS installed with bloated software has its downsides too.
I made a virtual machine recently for testing of XP. 2GIGs HD were NOT enough for a base install and update. 2 GIGS. And the OS didn't even do anything useful yet.
I do not think every program can go to the web. But javascript itself is a solid language, just mis understood by Java freaks who think there is only one way to code (see the large number of javascript libraries that seek to twist javascript into something it is not) and with the browser show intresting possibilties to get programs out of the OS/hardware lockin and widely available.
If that means the death of Java and.NET... well I am not going to shed a tear. If you said it would kill C or C++ I might care but not for.NET
I know this is hard to grasp for an American, but England is NOT a state of the United States of America. Not yet anyway. So Obama is NOT his president. And since he is 17, he hasn't yet voted for anybody either.
The US is not obliged to allow anyone in.
And I would think that the Brits have NOTHING to complain about since they have blocked Geert Wilders from entering because they didn't like what he had to say.
So the US can't keep out of a drunk teen, but the UK can keep out an elected citizen of an EU nation and a Nato ally?
I dare you to add up the costs of your newspapers. Magazine subscription. Phone line.
And I just keep buy clothes after clothes and what have I got to show for it? Rags! Must have spend thousands on them over my life.
Stuff costs money.
How "complete" should a game be?
Is a car complete because I can buy add-ons for it? Is Ford to blame that I need to replace to mats after a couple of years? Why does the car not come with a lifetime supply of fuel?
A game has X amount of content. If more content is created and you get it for free, the costs for the develop goes up but the income remains the same. So companies should never expand a game.
The expansion pack and the DLC are compromise between the producer and the customer. We the customer get more of what we want but at a reduced price, the publisher doesn't have to spend the full development cost of a new game for another round of sales.
But the perfect balance isn't always found. Horse armour for instance. Other games have had great free updates... odd that the ones I remember all happened by companies that are now gone. Giving extra stuff for free, just doesn't pay the bills.
Only if you think content has no costs would your argument hold weight. Sadly content is often the most expensive part of a game.
After all, were can a god fearing Muslim get a live feed from a mass rape for the sake of honor of an honorless people go? Youtube just doesn't cater.
And just where is a hindoe supposed to go to see women burned alive because it is cheaper then divorce?
Where is a Christian supposed to get info on bomb building to destroy that abortion clinic they disapprove off because having high teenage pregnancy is all the rage?
How else could NGO's and such avoid license fees and license nightmares? Why, use opensource. Install linux. Free too.
So to avoid people shifting to an OS that doesn't get you raided, MS offers its software free to a market that isn't exactly rolling in cash anyway. Kinda like the free licenses to schools. The first one is always free.
Now this IS a nice thing MS is doing, IF it doesn't come with the usual hooks, but it is also a good business move.
Mind you, for MS this is amazing:) Something that is good for them AND a lot of people. It is going to be one hell of a cold day.
Politicians can be bought for a few thousand. They are REALLY cheap. Tens of millions would buy you congress. Just check how much a politician does for a donation of 10 grand.
That is the difference between moral vacuum and honest crooks. Crooks do it for big bugs only. A mafia hitman will charge a lot of money because to the mafia a life has value. A random lunatic with zero morals will do it for a tenner, because life has no value.
The days of honest crooks wanting big bucks is gone. Now they just want enough to help fund their election campaign because they know that it is the easiest way. And they tell themselves they are not corrupt, because it doesn't go directly into their pocket. Just that the paid for election campaign gets them elected and all the salaries and compensations and later commission's that come with the job.
The decay of democracy doesn't make for an intresting movie. It is not the evil of the black, but of the gray.
When you are blowing the whistle, you got ask permission first. Because I am SURE the pentagon would happily lend a hand and help with releasing video of its soldiers slaughtering unarmed civilians complete with audio track of the soldiers enjoying the slaughter as if it is a game.
*END SARCASM MODE, SWITCH TO QUIET DESPAIR*
The above post is sadly a growing movement of "don't rock the boat" people who just don't want to hear anything that upsets them. If you tell them their house is on fire, they blame you, not the fire. Shoot the messenger, so you never have to hear anything disturbing. Trust the state, keep quiet and all will be well.
Reagan did this well, soothing voice, zero policies zero convictions. No wonder people want him back. No matter that he killed the economy. All is well because he said it was.
If you read the news and your blood doesn't boil every other article, you ain't reading news, you are reading entertainment.
Know that one? All it takes for evil men to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
All it takes for extreme Islam to triumph is for moderate Islam to do nothing.
And that is exactly what they are doing. NOTHING. And the longer they do nothing to stop the extremists among them, the harder it will become and the more the world will just get fed up.
Popularity of Geert Wilders and other anti-islam people is NOT due to racism, it is the average voter, the middle class, the ones who pay the taxes to become simply fed up. It isn't hate, it is tiredness. And hate makes evil men act. Tiredness makes good men not act. Hitler didn't come to power because a lot of Germans were evil but because a lot of Germans were tired of their current situation and wanted chance. Any chance, no matter how it came.
Instead of so-called moderate Muslims correcting their own extremists, they continue to provecate. Is this new building REALLY necessary? How come moderate Islam is more about protesting burnings of Koran's then about American flag burning by Muslims? Go to Iran, stop one of their many many flag burnings and THEN maybe I am willing to listen to your protests about someone burning the koran.
And this is another thing the average citizen is getting tired off. One rule for Muslims, one for everyone else. Apparently Muslims can insult and declare intifada's on everyone but if anyone dares protest, they are attacking Islam. Where is the Muslim moderate declaring that he will kill the religious leaders of Iran if they declare a single Jihad on anyone? Where is the Muslim who stands up against the extremist of his religion with words and actions that have MEANING?
Islam is not an extreme religion by itself, but it has problems dealing with its extremists. This is dangerous. It would be like US anti-abortion terrorists moving into Europe to spread their hate. Nobody cares if Americans blow up their own abortion clinucs, but keep the nutters to your own shores. Islam fails at this.
And democracy in the west ain't about being nice. It is about the majority dictating the minority. And you better do so, because we don't have a history of being nice against majorities that we hold accountable for something, rightly or wrongly.
I fear this stuff could blow up one day, all because good men did nothing. Because I am tired of Muslims. I admit it. I don't even hate them. I just want them to disappear. For once to open the newspaper and not read about them. Just as I can go weeks without reading about Jews, Christians, Budhists, Atheists getting in the news related to their faith.
Such stuff is an ADVERTISEMENT. The woman is trying to sell herself, so she lists stuff that she thinks make her attractive to others.
Normal people don't spend all their time thinking everything through as if it is a move in a chess game.
Think of it as going to an exotic location on holiday just to bake in the sun. You want to world to see you as an exciting person who has seen the world, when all you really want to do is not do anything at all.
Really, the reason nerds often do bad with women is because they overthink it all. STOP. If women were complicated, jocks wouldn't be able to deal with them.
Youth is more radical then their parents... youth just tend to the get confused about what radical means.
Radical ain't limited to the right... or even the left. Radical just means being extreme in your views. Unable to see the others point of view, convinced your point of view is not only the right one but everyone who disagrees is therefor wrong and unworthy of being listened to.
Youthful muslims are indeed more radical then their parents. BOTH ways. Some are strongly against the culture they got from home, others lean far more strongly towards it. Just as a young white person may be strongly socialist or strongly capitalist when their parents hover somewhere in between. Kids try to find their own identity and lack the capacity to moderate this. See german kids from well to do families joining the rotte armee faction (sorry for mispelling). Or young people hating environmentalism after it had an increase in popularity some years ago.
Go to any university and you will find plenty of extremes and very few moderates. It is the passion of youth. Radical young muslims has nothing to do with the qualities of Al Quada's recruitment. It is young people seeking their own identity without wisdom of the years to see the danger in extremes. Any extremes. I remember well the hippies who idolized India and completely forgot to implement the kast system of their beloved new faith/world view.
No difference between some holier then thou muslim youth and some vegan fanatic who protests outside KFC or an anti-abortion nutter. All these groups bring forth terrorists.
You mean were ships have been hijacked for months with no resolution? The crews want a talk with you, the moment somebody finds it urgent enough to get them released.
Except the police HAS no choice. Most western countries rather like the idea of the police NOT having any choices to make. They act on the instructions of their masters, either elected or at least appointed officials. Cops don't get to choose what and what not to enforce.
Such a raid as this isn't decided at the donut stand or whatever swedish cops eat. It is decided... well... that is the question isn't it? Police and prosecutors who work for the public good have always made it clear that this kind of stuff is very low priority to them. So who countermands them?
And then, you find such incidences as in France, were the person putting in new laws is married to someone who works in the entertainment industry. Corruption? No... not directly. More the willfull neglect of the voice of the people by only listening to a small segment.
You compare speeding with piracy... so how many children are killed by copyright infringement each year? I do admit, that I have downloaded at unsafe speeds before, even while drunk, but the only time blood was spilled is when I cut myself on the celophane wrapper of my new modem.
So, WHY did a lot of cops NOT spend their day catching people who drunk drive, rapist and others who harm society and went after nerds in their bedroom who harm the profit margins of a very small group of people, often foreigners?
You would think with all the corruption in Europe and terrorists they let slip by, they would have more important things to do. Like say capture REAL pirates doing REAL harm to commerce. Funny that the people so hot on piracy never go after real pirates who can shoot back. Aparently interrupting millions of dollars in shipping isn't as big a crime as copying music.
You have heard of 3D? Well, trains and ships and automibiles lack it. They travel on a flat service. Planes don't.
What happens to a train whose engines stops Nothing.
What happens to a ship whose engines stop? Nothing.
What happens to a car whose engines stop? Nothing.
What happens to a plane whose engines stops? It crashes into the ground.
The difference and one that should really be obvious is that with ground based vehicles, if something goes wrong, you got more time and the only safety procedure that must be performed is to bring the vehicle to a stop. Stop an aircraft in a mid air and it won't be there for long.
Even terrorists know this. That is why ships and trains have rarely been hijacked. There is no urgency.
With aircraft you don't time to instruct a crew member on how to turn the ship. You cannot rely on a deathman's handle to make an aircraft safe. Oh, you forgot about that little device didn't you. Wonder how come you forgot to mention the REAL reason brake men could be removed, the simply switch that in the event of a disaster happening to the driver, the train coming to an automatic stop.
Wonder why you left this device out? Because it would ruin your entire idiotic rant of "X works in situation Y, so it will work in situation Z"?
There are a LOT of accidents where the existence of the co-pilot saved the day. many you don't even hear about. like the regular occurance of a pilot getting a heart attack. And oh gosh, that is OFTEN the cause of SMALL aircrafti with SINGLE pilots crashing. That is why if you fly passengers, you need two pilots.
The moment someone can come up with a system that can land a plane safely no matter what, THEN the pilots can be replaced. But no such system exists. No, automated landing systems do not count. They work in perfect conditions, that can cease to be simply because an airport is repairing its systems. Unless airports start to be forced by law to have their automated systems on 24/7, aircraft can't rely on it. Especially not if such systems aren't even allowed to be used in less then ideal circumstances.
But really, comparing a train with a deadman's switch whose breaks are designed to bring the vehicle to a complete stop if anything happens to an aircraft... bit silly don't you think?
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And PHP is perfectly safe outside of bugs.
Just that the default USED to allow you to easily to do stuff that was not secure. Just accepting user input straight into your code as trusted is NOT a failure of PHP but of the developer. Sure, you could write an architecture that holds your hand, but PHP was meant as a template language, to get things done simply and cheaply. That people started to use it for heavy coding without learning basic security first is NOT the fault of the language. I can make the same basic mistakes in any language (yes, I am aware that this is not something to boast about).
PHP gets a lot of its bad rep from A: packages written in it that ignored basic security and B: upset Java .NET [flavor of the day language] that are upset their languages don't get the same love and attention.
It seems odd to me that despite all the supposed hate for PHP, a lot of software still gets written in it. Sounds like the detractors are suffering from a case of sour grapes. Show me the Ruby on Rails Wiki, the .NET forum, the perl webshop that is actually being used by anybody.
There are plenty of good sites that tell you how to code a secure web site. In any language. Don't complain about PHP if you can't handle it. Is it the languages fault you forget to check user input? Or don't understand variable scope?
I have come to the conclusion that those who can't handle straight PHP or Javascript just aren't that good at coding. Because a good coder can use any language AND make full use of its unique features. If you try to turn javascript into a java like language for instance, you are NOT using the full power of javascript. Why not?
Made by MS itself, free with the OS, that documents EVERY single aspect of the OS. Or even AN aspect of the OS.
Thank you.
Point me to a MS run wiki for Windows 7 that even comes close to the support you get for Ubuntu.
People always clame opensource lacks documentation, but MS documents nothing, they had to be ordered by courts to do it and came close to contempt of court because of their poor attempts at it.
SHOW me the documentation of .NET/ASP that comes close to the PHP site? RUN by MS, not some third party.
If you censor the entire net, then you DO shutdown the pedo sites. If you lock up everyone who isn't a right wing american KKK card carrier, then you do lock up the traitors. If you ban all Muslims and Muslim symphatizers from the US, you ban the Muslim terrorists as well (you still keep the abortion clinic bombers and seperatists and other home grown nutters).
THAT is the problem. The holocaust and WW2 did solve the German unemployment problem.
The REAL question is NOT to ask wether a measure will solve the problem but at what cost it comes.
Simply put. More kids are killed in traffic then by pedo's. Solution, ban cars. Why doesn't this get proposed? Because nobody wants to surrender their SUV with cattle bar for those hellish suburban roads.
We CAN hunt down pedo websites. BUT what is the price? Is the loss of freedom of speech and freedom of information worth saving a few kids? Yes? Then hand in your cars keys today... AH, thought so. You want to save a handful of kids from predators but not thousands from car accidents.
Same with 9/11 and the war against terror. We CAN stop the terrorists, but is it worth the total collapse of privacy and ruining internation trade and exchange of ideas?
Is the war on drugs worth Mexico being the latest country to slide into civil war? Locking up people who are just addicted enough to risk life in jail for smoking a joint for the 3rd time?
With extreme measures, we can solve all the worlds problems. But is it worth it?
So "That's why it's so important to not believe every person who can describe the problem, but rather look at their proposed solutions and see if they actually help, or will take you somewhere you don't want to go."
It is that last bit that is the important thing. Not wether it will help. That is easy enough. But do we want to life in that kind of world.
And that is hard. It requires people who value freedom of speech to defend smut peddlers like Larry Flynt. Not because they are pro-porn but because you either stand for freedom of speech for all or for none. Because if you allow stuff to be banned because it upsets people, you end up banning everything because everything upsets someone.
But that is VERY hard to sell. It is like argueing about the evils of various religious institutions in a religious country. Once a mere questioning of religious practices could get you in serious trouble. Thank god the Catholic and other churces have lost a lot of power and you can't simply be put to death for questioning the pope.
Right now you can just be cast out for daring to question the wrongness of child porn crusaders. Question this minister and you are automatically pro-pedo. A brave man/woman who dares to risk that. And so he gets away with it.
Put the coating on the child. Much more reliable.
First child: Wipe their bottom with the softest fabric and smoothest lotion.
Second child: fire hose.
Remember that one? Where IQ measures some intelligence, EQ measures someone emotional intelligence. Very roughly said, those with an high IQ tend to have low EQ's. And vice versa. That at least is the stereotypes both groups would like to label on each other.
Now, are all engineers highly intelligent? No. Does it mean all engineers have less developed social skills? No. BUT if I want to find socially awkward people, people that don't fit in, that feel left out, who lack social empathy with others, who tend to divide the world into us and them (or me and them) I would look in an IT department or a technical college before a teaching hospital. You don't go looking for people who hate kittens at your local animal shelter do you?
And terrorists NEED people who don't fit in. Why is Islamic terrorism not nearly as popular as you would think by the number of Muslim youth who in some polls indicate they hate everything western? Because they might well do, if asked with the right sort of leading question, BUT they don't hate it enough to end their own lives, kill their friends or at least people they know and don't want to actively hurt. You might hate the US, might be pro-Palestine but that does NOT mean you can just blow up a bomb strapped to yourself sitting next to a kid.
When you look at the "engineers" that this article talks about, it isn't hard to see that these weren't the kind of guys that broke the stereotype of the loner engineer who can't make friends. The detroit bomber has had a lot of his history published and boy, does he fit the profile. Rich kid from a macho culture upset with his parents who goes abroad and comes into a culture were his race and religion are ... well there is no polite way to say it, so fill it in yourself. How is a black socially akward muslim with a huge status change regarded in England? Don't forget where the german Rotte Armee faction recruited from. Not socialist worker families, but kids of upper middle class. Nothing like the misfit for some radicalism. Give them a place where they feel welcome and are told that they don't fit in with everyone else because everyone else is wrong.
It works, it is basic reqruitement and has been done throughout the ages. Every army recruiter works on the principe of talking an unsure kid into a army career by promising him certainties.
The lack of social skills being a major part of radicalism shows clearly when you compare those immigrants that have settled in and those that haven't. What came first, are the ones better at the language because they fit in, or do they fit better because they are better at the language OR rather COMMUNICATING in the local language? The better you are capable of dealing with strangers, the less strange they will become. Wanna bet these engineer terrorist stood in the corner at the first day of university?
Oh, sure, some here are going to be upset. They know themselves to be socially akward engineers but claim they are not terrorists. No, because nobody recruited you. And you did fit in because of your skin color and cultural background. I have been a foreigner myself and people mean well, but it can be so easy forget to speak slow or even in English. And maybe an invite is missed for an event and nobody meant to exclude that crazy black guy who never talks to anyone but it happened. And an outcast is born.
What I find intresting in the slashdot summary is that the author is basically saying "The most makes some interesting points (translation, I agree with them) and some suspect ones (translation, they upset me)". Sorry. life don't work that way.
The reason this is upsetting is because it means WE bred these western terrorists. And that the old bleeding heart mantra of "just give them the same chances" just doesn't work. Is racism or religious intolerance to blame? Maybe, a bit. But the real problem is that all the world cultures have really great difficulty in recognizing the severity of a culture clash. A large part of it is that those who would
Ikea should dump the furniture and just sell the boxes.
Expensive cat tower... meh
Box it came in: best thing ever!
Ideal cat furniture, warmed, small, high up, in sunbeam...
How this translate to humans? Like human could possible want to sit ina nice comfy warm spot in the sun with a great lookout on the world around us... oh wait.
Gelatin might sound better then horse bone jelly but we all know that is what it really is. So there is no hiding going on. Anymore then "eggs" is hiding "unborn children pooped out by a maggot eating flightless bird".
But this is RENAMING a product that has a bad name, to try to hide it. It is like BP renaming itself to "American Petroleum" to avoid the bad publishity.
There is nothing unhealthy about the products you mention (as far as I know), it is just labelling that has always been there. Honestly in labeling doesn't mean companies have to use the worsed description possible for their products. Even an apple (the fruit, not the company) would sound bad. Dying plant embroyo covered with (insect foot prints and drool/pesticide). Yummy!
And honey sales would just dry up completly.
Somehow I am not impressed when someone goes from absolute last to second last. It STILL is beaten by Opera, Chrome and Safari... so it beat Firefox which is the browser best known for its extensibility rather then speed by stripping itself down... So it becomes Chrome rather then Firefox, but then looses to Chrome.
oh, and it only work with hardware acceleration, only on windows and then only on recent versions of windows. ALL its competitors run on Windows XP with no trouble AND do it faster. So MS can't get a fast browser on its own OS THAT IT STILL SELLS!
My god, is our opinion of IE really THAT low that we find this impressive?
Oh and cue all the MS fanboys who will explain that IE9 can't run on XP because it needs X and yet all its competitors can do it. And run on Linux and OSX to boot...
IE is that special kid in class, who wins a price not for coming in first, but because everyone is special in their own way. Even if they eat the chalk.
MS, if you want to change the perceptions of your crappy software, do a FORCED upgrade on ALL your still used OS'es to IE9. Stop hiding behind excuses and repair the damage you did to paying customers with IE6. You got plenty of money to do it, so there are no excuses. Rid the world of IE6 and I might even buy an xbox... Nah
I can't follow you outside slashdot unless YOU make that possible. I don't know who you are. I can search your posts by your username because YOU choose to create an account and post under that account. I can't see what posts you made as an AC. Or what moderations you have done.
All your actions outside posts made under your account are unknown to me, unless YOU somehow share them AND link them to this account. You could be Obama for all I know, or be Lady Gaga. Now, I could google your nickname, but that only works if you used the same nick somewhere else.
It is possible to analyse all your posts and from them deduce a profile based on your style of writing. To be fair for the average slashdot poster that would put their location as "nearest kindergarden" but it might be possible to trace you to a specific location.
BUT that is because YOU choose to link all your posts together.
On the other hand, in the real world, I can't go invisible when I leave my house. So my neighbours know when I come and when I go. The supermarket can tell what I am doing by what I am buying. The bookshop knows my reading habbits (you sicko, is their personalized greeting) etc etc.
So, why do people worry about their online visibitlity where you can be a million different people, when everyone and their dog knows your offline person and what it is doing?
If you ever lived in a small community, you are used to it and you know, if the community is good, then it is a benefit. Neighbours actually stopped an attempted burglary because they knew I was away and saw movement so knew it couldn't be okay when I was younger and lived in a "village" that was about a dozen houses. In Amsterdam I had a neighbour discovered after the smell from the rotting corpse finally drifted into the hallway. All I knew was that the previous resident had moved and nobody ever noticed the new person moving in.
Don't complain about invasion of privacy is you broadcast every fart you make to the entire world. It is like saying "how dare people look at me when I streak down the high street".
Sir Humphrey: "You know what happens: nice young lady comes up to you. Obviously you want to create a good impression, you don't want to look a fool, do you? So she starts asking you some questions: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the number of young people without jobs?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a lack of discipline in our Comprehensive schools?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think young people welcome some authority and leadership in their lives?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think they respond to a challenge?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Would you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?"
Bernard Woolley: "Oh...well, I suppose I might be."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes or no?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Of course you would, Bernard. After all you told you can't say no to that. So they don't mention the first five questions and they publish the last one."
Bernard Woolley: "Is that really what they do?"
Sir Humphrey: "Well, not the reputable ones no, but there aren't many of those. So alternatively the young lady can get the opposite result."
Bernard Woolley: "How?"
Sir Humphrey: "Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the growth of armaments?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think it is wrong to force people to take up arms against their will?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Would you oppose the reintroduction of National Service?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "There you are, you see Bernard. The perfect balanced sample."
http://www.yes-minister.com/ypmseas1a.htm
Yes (Prime) Minister
Watch it. Understand it. Remember it.
Good, that means a world were people could still code. Were people didn't jump on to the latest flavor language/framework because they want auto-generated code that takes a super computer to run. Sorry but Java and .NET are to me NOT the holy pinacles of coding achievement. They are usuable languages that unfortunally have gotten overloaded by people who use them not to code but rather to not code. Just click on wizards and generate code.
With a shift to Javascript, people might actually have to start thinking about cpu cycles again. Optimizations rather then bloat.
Yes in some ways everything old is new again and maybe that is because a text editor really shouldn't use gigs of memory. Maybe the future is in small apps that do one thing well and do it cost effective. Gosh, if only there was an OS based on this philosophy.
I see the move to the browser as a move to be OS and device independent. Gmail works EVERYWHERE. It does everything I need it to do and as an extra bonus I can use it anywhere. No more Windows, Linux, OS-X requirement. No more version differences or installs or license keys. Just fire up any browser and my mail is there.
Same with google docs. Sure sure, it don't do everything Office or even OpenOffice does, but I don't use 99% of the features. And for not confusing me with features I do not need and want, it again has freed me from hardware and OS, and I can access it anywhere. Crashed HD? No worry to me.
Yes, there are downsides, but frankly the recent 20 years of needing a super sized OS installed with bloated software has its downsides too.
I made a virtual machine recently for testing of XP. 2GIGs HD were NOT enough for a base install and update. 2 GIGS. And the OS didn't even do anything useful yet.
I do not think every program can go to the web. But javascript itself is a solid language, just mis understood by Java freaks who think there is only one way to code (see the large number of javascript libraries that seek to twist javascript into something it is not) and with the browser show intresting possibilties to get programs out of the OS/hardware lockin and widely available.
If that means the death of Java and .NET... well I am not going to shed a tear. If you said it would kill C or C++ I might care but not for .NET
I know this is hard to grasp for an American, but England is NOT a state of the United States of America. Not yet anyway. So Obama is NOT his president. And since he is 17, he hasn't yet voted for anybody either.
The US is not obliged to allow anyone in.
And I would think that the Brits have NOTHING to complain about since they have blocked Geert Wilders from entering because they didn't like what he had to say.
So the US can't keep out of a drunk teen, but the UK can keep out an elected citizen of an EU nation and a Nato ally?
Double standards, thou name is Britain.
I dare you to add up the costs of your newspapers. Magazine subscription. Phone line.
And I just keep buy clothes after clothes and what have I got to show for it? Rags! Must have spend thousands on them over my life.
Stuff costs money.
How "complete" should a game be?
Is a car complete because I can buy add-ons for it? Is Ford to blame that I need to replace to mats after a couple of years? Why does the car not come with a lifetime supply of fuel?
A game has X amount of content. If more content is created and you get it for free, the costs for the develop goes up but the income remains the same. So companies should never expand a game.
The expansion pack and the DLC are compromise between the producer and the customer. We the customer get more of what we want but at a reduced price, the publisher doesn't have to spend the full development cost of a new game for another round of sales.
But the perfect balance isn't always found. Horse armour for instance. Other games have had great free updates... odd that the ones I remember all happened by companies that are now gone. Giving extra stuff for free, just doesn't pay the bills.
Only if you think content has no costs would your argument hold weight. Sadly content is often the most expensive part of a game.
After all, were can a god fearing Muslim get a live feed from a mass rape for the sake of honor of an honorless people go? Youtube just doesn't cater.
And just where is a hindoe supposed to go to see women burned alive because it is cheaper then divorce?
Where is a Christian supposed to get info on bomb building to destroy that abortion clinic they disapprove off because having high teenage pregnancy is all the rage?
Mainstream media just doesn't cater.
How else could NGO's and such avoid license fees and license nightmares? Why, use opensource. Install linux. Free too.
So to avoid people shifting to an OS that doesn't get you raided, MS offers its software free to a market that isn't exactly rolling in cash anyway. Kinda like the free licenses to schools. The first one is always free.
Now this IS a nice thing MS is doing, IF it doesn't come with the usual hooks, but it is also a good business move.
Mind you, for MS this is amazing :) Something that is good for them AND a lot of people. It is going to be one hell of a cold day.
Politicians can be bought for a few thousand. They are REALLY cheap. Tens of millions would buy you congress. Just check how much a politician does for a donation of 10 grand.
That is the difference between moral vacuum and honest crooks. Crooks do it for big bugs only. A mafia hitman will charge a lot of money because to the mafia a life has value. A random lunatic with zero morals will do it for a tenner, because life has no value.
The days of honest crooks wanting big bucks is gone. Now they just want enough to help fund their election campaign because they know that it is the easiest way. And they tell themselves they are not corrupt, because it doesn't go directly into their pocket. Just that the paid for election campaign gets them elected and all the salaries and compensations and later commission's that come with the job.
The decay of democracy doesn't make for an intresting movie. It is not the evil of the black, but of the gray.
*ENGAGE SARCASM MODE*
When you are blowing the whistle, you got ask permission first. Because I am SURE the pentagon would happily lend a hand and help with releasing video of its soldiers slaughtering unarmed civilians complete with audio track of the soldiers enjoying the slaughter as if it is a game.
*END SARCASM MODE, SWITCH TO QUIET DESPAIR*
The above post is sadly a growing movement of "don't rock the boat" people who just don't want to hear anything that upsets them. If you tell them their house is on fire, they blame you, not the fire. Shoot the messenger, so you never have to hear anything disturbing. Trust the state, keep quiet and all will be well.
Reagan did this well, soothing voice, zero policies zero convictions. No wonder people want him back. No matter that he killed the economy. All is well because he said it was.
If you read the news and your blood doesn't boil every other article, you ain't reading news, you are reading entertainment.
I can forget about it in 2 sec... ooh, Idols is on.
So, of which country are you queen? Or are you merely insane that you refer to yourself in the third person?
If not, stop talking for EVERYONE else. I might or might not agree with you, but have NOT given you permission to speak for me.
Odd that someone protests against a controlling society, yet then assumes control of the opinion of all humanity with a single statement.
Know that one? All it takes for evil men to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
All it takes for extreme Islam to triumph is for moderate Islam to do nothing.
And that is exactly what they are doing. NOTHING. And the longer they do nothing to stop the extremists among them, the harder it will become and the more the world will just get fed up.
Popularity of Geert Wilders and other anti-islam people is NOT due to racism, it is the average voter, the middle class, the ones who pay the taxes to become simply fed up. It isn't hate, it is tiredness. And hate makes evil men act. Tiredness makes good men not act. Hitler didn't come to power because a lot of Germans were evil but because a lot of Germans were tired of their current situation and wanted chance. Any chance, no matter how it came.
Instead of so-called moderate Muslims correcting their own extremists, they continue to provecate. Is this new building REALLY necessary? How come moderate Islam is more about protesting burnings of Koran's then about American flag burning by Muslims? Go to Iran, stop one of their many many flag burnings and THEN maybe I am willing to listen to your protests about someone burning the koran.
And this is another thing the average citizen is getting tired off. One rule for Muslims, one for everyone else. Apparently Muslims can insult and declare intifada's on everyone but if anyone dares protest, they are attacking Islam. Where is the Muslim moderate declaring that he will kill the religious leaders of Iran if they declare a single Jihad on anyone? Where is the Muslim who stands up against the extremist of his religion with words and actions that have MEANING?
Islam is not an extreme religion by itself, but it has problems dealing with its extremists. This is dangerous. It would be like US anti-abortion terrorists moving into Europe to spread their hate. Nobody cares if Americans blow up their own abortion clinucs, but keep the nutters to your own shores. Islam fails at this.
And democracy in the west ain't about being nice. It is about the majority dictating the minority. And you better do so, because we don't have a history of being nice against majorities that we hold accountable for something, rightly or wrongly.
I fear this stuff could blow up one day, all because good men did nothing. Because I am tired of Muslims. I admit it. I don't even hate them. I just want them to disappear. For once to open the newspaper and not read about them. Just as I can go weeks without reading about Jews, Christians, Budhists, Atheists getting in the news related to their faith.
Such stuff is an ADVERTISEMENT. The woman is trying to sell herself, so she lists stuff that she thinks make her attractive to others.
Normal people don't spend all their time thinking everything through as if it is a move in a chess game.
Think of it as going to an exotic location on holiday just to bake in the sun. You want to world to see you as an exciting person who has seen the world, when all you really want to do is not do anything at all.
Really, the reason nerds often do bad with women is because they overthink it all. STOP. If women were complicated, jocks wouldn't be able to deal with them.
Youth is more radical then their parents... youth just tend to the get confused about what radical means.
Radical ain't limited to the right... or even the left. Radical just means being extreme in your views. Unable to see the others point of view, convinced your point of view is not only the right one but everyone who disagrees is therefor wrong and unworthy of being listened to.
Youthful muslims are indeed more radical then their parents. BOTH ways. Some are strongly against the culture they got from home, others lean far more strongly towards it. Just as a young white person may be strongly socialist or strongly capitalist when their parents hover somewhere in between. Kids try to find their own identity and lack the capacity to moderate this. See german kids from well to do families joining the rotte armee faction (sorry for mispelling). Or young people hating environmentalism after it had an increase in popularity some years ago.
Go to any university and you will find plenty of extremes and very few moderates. It is the passion of youth. Radical young muslims has nothing to do with the qualities of Al Quada's recruitment. It is young people seeking their own identity without wisdom of the years to see the danger in extremes. Any extremes. I remember well the hippies who idolized India and completely forgot to implement the kast system of their beloved new faith/world view.
No difference between some holier then thou muslim youth and some vegan fanatic who protests outside KFC or an anti-abortion nutter. All these groups bring forth terrorists.
You mean were ships have been hijacked for months with no resolution? The crews want a talk with you, the moment somebody finds it urgent enough to get them released.
Except the police HAS no choice. Most western countries rather like the idea of the police NOT having any choices to make. They act on the instructions of their masters, either elected or at least appointed officials. Cops don't get to choose what and what not to enforce.
Such a raid as this isn't decided at the donut stand or whatever swedish cops eat. It is decided... well... that is the question isn't it? Police and prosecutors who work for the public good have always made it clear that this kind of stuff is very low priority to them. So who countermands them?
And then, you find such incidences as in France, were the person putting in new laws is married to someone who works in the entertainment industry. Corruption? No... not directly. More the willfull neglect of the voice of the people by only listening to a small segment.
You compare speeding with piracy... so how many children are killed by copyright infringement each year? I do admit, that I have downloaded at unsafe speeds before, even while drunk, but the only time blood was spilled is when I cut myself on the celophane wrapper of my new modem.
So, WHY did a lot of cops NOT spend their day catching people who drunk drive, rapist and others who harm society and went after nerds in their bedroom who harm the profit margins of a very small group of people, often foreigners?
You would think with all the corruption in Europe and terrorists they let slip by, they would have more important things to do. Like say capture REAL pirates doing REAL harm to commerce. Funny that the people so hot on piracy never go after real pirates who can shoot back. Aparently interrupting millions of dollars in shipping isn't as big a crime as copying music.
You have heard of 3D? Well, trains and ships and automibiles lack it. They travel on a flat service. Planes don't.
What happens to a train whose engines stops Nothing.
What happens to a ship whose engines stop? Nothing.
What happens to a car whose engines stop? Nothing.
What happens to a plane whose engines stops? It crashes into the ground.
The difference and one that should really be obvious is that with ground based vehicles, if something goes wrong, you got more time and the only safety procedure that must be performed is to bring the vehicle to a stop. Stop an aircraft in a mid air and it won't be there for long.
Even terrorists know this. That is why ships and trains have rarely been hijacked. There is no urgency.
With aircraft you don't time to instruct a crew member on how to turn the ship. You cannot rely on a deathman's handle to make an aircraft safe. Oh, you forgot about that little device didn't you. Wonder how come you forgot to mention the REAL reason brake men could be removed, the simply switch that in the event of a disaster happening to the driver, the train coming to an automatic stop.
Wonder why you left this device out? Because it would ruin your entire idiotic rant of "X works in situation Y, so it will work in situation Z"?
There are a LOT of accidents where the existence of the co-pilot saved the day. many you don't even hear about. like the regular occurance of a pilot getting a heart attack. And oh gosh, that is OFTEN the cause of SMALL aircrafti with SINGLE pilots crashing. That is why if you fly passengers, you need two pilots.
The moment someone can come up with a system that can land a plane safely no matter what, THEN the pilots can be replaced. But no such system exists. No, automated landing systems do not count. They work in perfect conditions, that can cease to be simply because an airport is repairing its systems. Unless airports start to be forced by law to have their automated systems on 24/7, aircraft can't rely on it. Especially not if such systems aren't even allowed to be used in less then ideal circumstances.
But really, comparing a train with a deadman's switch whose breaks are designed to bring the vehicle to a complete stop if anything happens to an aircraft... bit silly don't you think?