Uhh - sounds like they tried to install some kind of activex microblaster-enabled spyware bug??
Chances are it was just a GIF/JPEG image embedded in an e-mail. Your e-mail client downloads the image from a web server to display it and whammo - they have your IP address.
Erm... Microsoft is a corporation. Corporations exist to make money and only to make money - the more, the better. There is no such thing as a moral obligation in the eyes of a corporation. They don't do things to "be nice". They do things to make money, or to improve their prospects of making money.
So yes, chances are virtually everything they do is devious in one sense or another. But the same goes for IBM, Novell, Sun,...
But it really does depend. I'd use Perl over Python for web development any day of the week (exception: Zope seems pretty cool, but I've not fooled with it enough. The 'everything is an object' metaphor is heaps cool though:)). Perl is faster to write and more expressive, Python is easier to read and - IMHO - often better structured.
PHP is great for hacking web stuff together, but... yeah... the language itself seems a little hacked together - PHP5 fixes a lot of things, mind you so my opinion might change in a few months time after I've used it a little more.
It worries me that a "feature complete" version of PHP instantly becomes a release candidate, rather than stewing in Beta for a while.
I'll never forget the day when I was in the city, feeling a bit peckish. I went and bought a burger, and some chips from KFC then, seeing their seating area full, looked around for somewhere to sit.
I ended up sitting down outside of a McDonald's store with my meal. I was eating away happily, almost finished when a McDrone - obviously under the direction of her coward ass manager - told me that the area I chose to sit in was, in fact, reserved for McDonalds customers (her actual words included the phrase "you can't eat here").
I giggled, told her I'd just finished anyway then got up and walked off, astounded at the fact that - although I was generally a McDonalds customer - I chose otherwise for a day and was treated like dirt.
In retrospect it would have been nice to tell the bitch to get fucked. I suppose though, in a day when schools are billboards for these corporate fucks it should be no surprise that a silly high school chick doesn't have the balls (so to speak) to tell her manager to fuck off.
Anyway, I make it a point to sit in that area eating KFC whenever I can now. (Unfortunately?) I haven't been asked to move since.
From the links in my previous post, I learned two things:
a) Alan Cox, you are a scary, hairy man; and b) I now know why Perl is such a mess: clearly larry couldn't see the code he was writing from behind that moustache.
No offence, you're all smarter than me and I love you, but by the law of the school yard that makes poking fun of you okay.
I've got a script that lets me take input from the web and display it on the sign. Eventually it will have other, more useful, purposes, but I figured I'd let you guys play with it as it is.
Me: *slightly slurrish* Hi, howsh thingsh? Gorgeous Girl: Go away. Not interested you drunken son of a bitch. Me: *laughs heartily* Well, that was shurely the Guinessh top ten of the worsht shmall mrshnahmblah... *eyes slowly, and very floppily blink*... Shpeaking of Guinessh, reckon there's any chance I'll get a lay outta you tonight? Like, if I buy you one or... *hic*... shomething?
And that's all I remember:/ Next morning I woke up naked next to the pub's seventy year old bar hag.
Uh, yes I am - this is about my third professional year now.
Most developers I know don't have to make "half-assed guesses" about the language they work with, they know it.
Then I envy you. Perhaps you can get one of them to recite the HTML 4.01 spec to me then? Or hey, get them to write me a standards compliant HTML parser. I mean, what IS "knowing"? What's good enough?
I'm not the best software developer you'll come across, but fact is that most developers (indeed, quite a few of the ones I've come across) are relatively clueless.
This makes sense really, since they're dragged along in one direction by whatever technology $EMPLOYER chooses with no real opportunity for expanding their horizons.
And when I say "clueless" I don't mean "stupid bastards" - they're intelligent people, they've just been left out in the technological cold.
Also, what does case have to do with anything?
Exactly what I was talking about: Conformity. Readability.
Your main arguments against HTML don't really make much sense.
Considering I didn't mention font tags, didn't really go much into the evils of table based layout and the wonderful (if sometimes frustrating) benefits of CSS.
Don't get me wrong, CSS is as horrid as it is great due to the whole cross platform deal. But it's leap years ahead of The Old Way.
So let go. Learn something new. Appreciate it, despite its flaws.
As a developer, I find XHTML to be a huge improvement on HTML - it just makes more sense. No more half-assed guesses as to whether or not a tag needs to be closed or VARIATIONS in tag name CASES that SEEM to BE randomly switched BETWEEN by CERTAIN web designers.
Tables are discouraged which means XHTML code written by a competent developer is much simpler, presentation and content are easier (but IMHO not yet easy enough) to separate so designers have an easier time of things, the structure of XHTML is consistent, unambiguous and - assuming you avoid going crazy with namespaces - easier on the eyes of a developer, and much more easily parsed.
I think I speak for all employed PHP web application developers when I say "Fuck you."
Now if you'd stop bothering me with your smart ass comments, I'll get back to writing my forum^H^H^H^H^H complex CPU-intensive business application...:/
Think self-modifying code. If you make it so that viruses can't change themselves in-memory, you've just made polymorphic viruses a whole lot more difficult.
Unfortunately this means other, legitimate self-modifying code may also have issues...
I've said it before, but ...
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I always assumed that SCO were a company who had turned to litigation because they couldn't sell products.
Well, that was only the tip of the iceberg.
The rest of it is that BayStar (and others?) delivered a truckload of cash to SCO with a prod in the ribs and a wink.
SCO is evil. BayStar is more evil, because it funds companies to play the asshole/evil war against the big guns - encouraging companies to take up the rifles of Intellectual Property (and I don't just mean those companies being funded - I mean other companies seeing BayStar make a dollar and wanting to jump on the bandwagon).
This ENCOURAGES shitty patents. The broader the better: the more you can sue.
Linux must have looked like a fucking gold mine to BayStar.
I find the whole idea disturbing. I'm crossing my fingers that before SCO dies, BayStar breathes its last too.
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No no, a literal translation would be something more like "In Democratic United States the exploited get WORMED!"
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Uhh - sounds like they tried to install some kind of activex microblaster-enabled spyware bug??
Chances are it was just a GIF/JPEG image embedded in an e-mail. Your e-mail client downloads the image from a web server to display it and whammo - they have your IP address.
Erm ... Microsoft is a corporation. Corporations exist to make money and only to make money - the more, the better. There is no such thing as a moral obligation in the eyes of a corporation. They don't do things to "be nice". They do things to make money, or to improve their prospects of making money.
...
So yes, chances are virtually everything they do is devious in one sense or another. But the same goes for IBM, Novell, Sun,
When you use google, only part of your soul is consumed. Better than the alternative I say.
GMail: 2 times the calories, 1/3 of your soul!
Well, "Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux."
IPsec is basically authentication/encryption for packets at the IP level.
lol, meanwhile the Americans are piling naked Iraqi's on top of one another.
This helps the Iraqi people how?
But it really does depend. I'd use Perl over Python for web development any day of the week (exception: Zope seems pretty cool, but I've not fooled with it enough. The 'everything is an object' metaphor is heaps cool though :)). Perl is faster to write and more expressive, Python is easier to read and - IMHO - often better structured.
... yeah ... the language itself seems a little hacked together - PHP5 fixes a lot of things, mind you so my opinion might change in a few months time after I've used it a little more.
PHP is great for hacking web stuff together, but
It worries me that a "feature complete" version of PHP instantly becomes a release candidate, rather than stewing in Beta for a while.
I'll never forget the day when I was in the city, feeling a bit peckish. I went and bought a burger, and some chips from KFC then, seeing their seating area full, looked around for somewhere to sit.
I ended up sitting down outside of a McDonald's store with my meal. I was eating away happily, almost finished when a McDrone - obviously under the direction of her coward ass manager - told me that the area I chose to sit in was, in fact, reserved for McDonalds customers (her actual words included the phrase "you can't eat here").
I giggled, told her I'd just finished anyway then got up and walked off, astounded at the fact that - although I was generally a McDonalds customer - I chose otherwise for a day and was treated like dirt.
In retrospect it would have been nice to tell the bitch to get fucked. I suppose though, in a day when schools are billboards for these corporate fucks it should be no surprise that a silly high school chick doesn't have the balls (so to speak) to tell her manager to fuck off.
Anyway, I make it a point to sit in that area eating KFC whenever I can now. (Unfortunately?) I haven't been asked to move since.
From the links in my previous post, I learned two things:
a) Alan Cox, you are a scary, hairy man; and
b) I now know why Perl is such a mess: clearly larry couldn't see the code he was writing from behind that moustache.
No offence, you're all smarter than me and I love you, but by the law of the school yard that makes poking fun of you okay.
I mean, have you seen some of the gurus of "open source" lately?
Whatever can you mean?
I've never installed something unknowingly using linux
:P
you mean you've never knowingly installed something unknowingly - right?
I've got a script that lets me take input from the web and display it on the sign. Eventually it will have other, more useful, purposes, but I figured I'd let you guys play with it as it is.
Are you FUCKING INSANE?
Me: *slightly slurrish* Hi, howsh thingsh? ... *eyes slowly, and very floppily blink* ... Shpeaking of Guinessh, reckon there's any chance I'll get a lay outta you tonight? Like, if I buy you one or ... *hic* ... shomething?
:/ Next morning I woke up naked next to the pub's seventy year old bar hag.
Gorgeous Girl: Go away. Not interested you drunken son of a bitch.
Me: *laughs heartily* Well, that was shurely the Guinessh top ten of the worsht shmall mrshnahmblah
And that's all I remember
Thanks a lot man.
Personally, I'd love some decent FTP support in Mozilla.
gftp does an *okay* job, but there's not a lot else out there.
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Mine does sixty monkeys to the gallon
You mean sharks with freakin' fresnel lenses?
...
Almost sounds like a good name for a band really
I'm guessing you're not actually a developer?
Uh, yes I am - this is about my third professional year now.
Most developers I know don't have to make "half-assed guesses" about the language they work with, they know it.
Then I envy you. Perhaps you can get one of them to recite the HTML 4.01 spec to me then? Or hey, get them to write me a standards compliant HTML parser. I mean, what IS "knowing"? What's good enough?
I'm not the best software developer you'll come across, but fact is that most developers (indeed, quite a few of the ones I've come across) are relatively clueless.
This makes sense really, since they're dragged along in one direction by whatever technology $EMPLOYER chooses with no real opportunity for expanding their horizons.
And when I say "clueless" I don't mean "stupid bastards" - they're intelligent people, they've just been left out in the technological cold.
Also, what does case have to do with anything?
Exactly what I was talking about: Conformity. Readability.
Your main arguments against HTML don't really make much sense.
Considering I didn't mention font tags, didn't really go much into the evils of table based layout and the wonderful (if sometimes frustrating) benefits of CSS.
Don't get me wrong, CSS is as horrid as it is great due to the whole cross platform deal. But it's leap years ahead of The Old Way.
So let go. Learn something new. Appreciate it, despite its flaws.
That said, XHTML is fucking stupid.
And that statement is based on what?
As a developer, I find XHTML to be a huge improvement on HTML - it just makes more sense. No more half-assed guesses as to whether or not a tag needs to be closed or VARIATIONS in tag name CASES that SEEM to BE randomly switched BETWEEN by CERTAIN web designers.
Tables are discouraged which means XHTML code written by a competent developer is much simpler, presentation and content are easier (but IMHO not yet easy enough) to separate so designers have an easier time of things, the structure of XHTML is consistent, unambiguous and - assuming you avoid going crazy with namespaces - easier on the eyes of a developer, and much more easily parsed.
So what exactly was your gripe with XHTML?
I think I speak for all employed PHP web application developers when I say "Fuck you."
... :/
Now if you'd stop bothering me with your smart ass comments, I'll get back to writing my forum^H^H^H^H^H complex CPU-intensive business application
Ralph: This is my swing set. This is my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end. [points to large rock] That's where I saw the leprechaun!
Bart: [sarcastically] Right, a leprechaun.
Ralph: He told me to burn things.
From here
Is it just me, or are irrelevant links to IMDB the New Slashdot Thing - right up there with Beowulf clusters and insensitive clods?
Or has the GNAA changed its focus from poo coated women to just plain ol' shitty movies?
At least you don't have to wait too long until you can pry her private key from her cold, dead fingers
I don't know about you, but I prefer to stay well away from my grandma's privates.
NX is not an instruction, it's a flag. Think in terms of the Evil Bit. A boolean value saying "No, this bit of data is not executable".
Has nothing at all to do with instructions, except that you can't execute instructions in a data segment with the NX bit set.
Think self-modifying code. If you make it so that viruses can't change themselves in-memory, you've just made polymorphic viruses a whole lot more difficult.
...
Unfortunately this means other, legitimate self-modifying code may also have issues
I always assumed that SCO were a company who had turned to litigation because they couldn't sell products.
Well, that was only the tip of the iceberg.
The rest of it is that BayStar (and others?) delivered a truckload of cash to SCO with a prod in the ribs and a wink.
SCO is evil.
BayStar is more evil, because it funds companies to play the asshole/evil war against the big guns - encouraging companies to take up the rifles of Intellectual Property (and I don't just mean those companies being funded - I mean other companies seeing BayStar make a dollar and wanting to jump on the bandwagon).
This ENCOURAGES shitty patents. The broader the better: the more you can sue.
Linux must have looked like a fucking gold mine to BayStar.
I find the whole idea disturbing. I'm crossing my fingers that before SCO dies, BayStar breathes its last too.
No no, a literal translation would be something more like "In Democratic United States the exploited get WORMED!"