In order to expose the glitch, a special "double-up" feature had to be internally activated. The men persuaded casino technicians to alter "soft" options on the machines, such as volume and screen brightness controls. Such perks aren't unusual for high-rollers
This wasn't about hitting buttons, they were using social engineering to enable a flaw that became exploitable. This is no different than screwing someone at a cash register by confusing them on the amount of change they're supposed to give you, an age-old grift.
The only reason to use PHP is if you're scripting in a shared hosting environment where PHP or Perl CGI scripts are the only options available.
If you're not, you should look at either Python or Ruby. Either will be vastly better, along with some less popular choices like Lua, Groovy, Scala, Erlang...
Basically, anything else. It's not that PHP can't be sufficient, it's that it has a long and hideously compromised development history and actually demands far more of you, the scripter, to make it safe and useful, than does any of the other scripting languages.
In general, yes, the idea of the government mandating medical treatment is scary.
But, in the case of vaccines, I'm happy to make an exception. There are three miracles of medicine in the 19th/20th century: The germ theory of medicine that led to proper medical hygiene, antibiotics, and vaccines. All three were responsible for massive improvements in the efficacy of medicine.
However, for vaccines to be as effective as they are, they need to be mandatory except in cases where there's a legitimate reason to refuse (such as a compromised immune system). Herd immunity is arguably more powerful than the vaccine itself--your smallpox vaccination is good, but never being exposed to it is better. We've actually killed diseases with vaccination.
Leaving it up to the parents is leaving it up to people who don't know enough about the topic, so they're misled by people like Jenny McCarthy touting bullshit links between vaccine and autism. That destroys herd immunity and allows parents to make mistakes with potentially fatal consequences for their children.
We don't allow parents not to get their child a needed appendectomy because their faith requires prayer instead of surgery. We shouldn't allow parents to expose their children to potentially fatal diseases because they make the wrong choice thanks to media-generated noise. We collectively allow, and should fight for, the maximal freedom for every individual. This doesn't mean that we never make collective decisions.
You're daughter probably had a reaction to the vaccine. It happens. It happens far less than the rate of Mumps, Measles, and Rubella would in the absence of vaccine, so on the balance of probability, I'd still vaccinate my kids.
You of all people should be angry with the anti-vaxxers. Herd immunity would protect your daughter since the vaccine can't due to her adverse reaction, but anti-vaxxers have dropped the rate of vaccination below the herd immunity level, and now we're seeing outbreaks where children die from these diseases.
Next time you meet an anti-vaxxer who doesn't have a legitimate reason like yours, punch them in the mouth.
Who cares about the rate of efficacy over decades and the fact that the supposed link to autism is demonstrably bogus! I'm not putting mercury and shredded virus DNA into my kids!
If only someone had used these loaded words decades ago, they could have saved millions of children from being effectively vaccinated!
It's nice to see this sort of comment on/., where almost every posters sees the word "rockstar" and thinks "me".
I forget who said it (Paul Graham?), but they basically said "forget about hiring rockstars, because no rockstar would ever want to work for you. By definition, if someone accepts your job offer, they're not a rockstar."
On the iPhone, apps are toys that make the phone more interesting, so people are willing to pay $0.99 for them but not much more. On the iPad, you expect greater functionality, or at least better interface, because the screen is bigger and it's a more apparently useful device on which you can do more, or do the same more easily. The Mac is just the next rung on that ladder, and will command higher premiums for a better experience.
If Harbormaster offers the identical version on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, it'll cost the same. But what we've already seen is that the Ipad version is bigger and better, and costs more. Any app with a more enriched Mac version will carry a price premium for it, quite appropriately, and people will pay more for it.
The glut of devs and available apps will create some downward price pressure, but anyone offering anything that takes advantage of the greater capabilities of the Mac will still get a higher price for it. The iPad didn't get trapped in the iPhone's price swamp; the Mac won't get caught in the iPad's.
You're not off scott free. If you're a shareholder in a company that causes everyone in a small town to get cancer because they're dumping pollutants in the water supply, your investment will drop in value when the class action suit gets certified and the company is looking at billions of dollars in payouts. All the incentive you need is there to actually examine the company and dump your stock if you fear they're misbehaving.
There's no proof available a priori that the company officers will act ethically, and as far as catching them acting badly, that's what quarterly and annual filings are for. Enron was quite famously detected early on by several analysts who actually read their filings and realized that it there was a financial shell game going on; the problem was that the market as a whole didn't look. But those few analysts started the snowball that ended in Enron's bankruptcy.
The problem is 1) the size of the companies and 2) the massive amounts of money involved that tie up lawsuits for years. It's possible to get away with fraud and bad acts for years or even decades before you get caught and have to pay.
I do recall seeing a police detective interviewed, saying something along the lines of what you said: Criminals are greedy, so they're stupid, so they're usually quite easy to catch. People smart enough to get away with crime are smart enough to now that it's usually not worth doing.
If they actually pulled $80MM out between them, that's $20MM each. That's money that allows you to disappear, to buy a house on a beach in Thailand or Costa Rica and never work or care again--or if you hunger for civilization, to construct a new identity that creates a totally clean break with the theft.
Why the fuck would you stick around after stealing $20MM?
Joel's daily build mantra comes from Microsoft, where almost all products (including Windows and Office) require it. The Windows daily build farm is apparently quite impressive--which it has to be to completely build the whole OS every night. Yes, it's for large, complex projects that would previously be built weekly or monthly, creating incredibly long detection/correction cycles.
Additionally, they had a punishment for breaking the build: If it was your code, you became the babysitter every night until someone else broke it. That provided a strong incentive to test your code thoroughly before checking it in.
Repealing DADT allows the Commander in Chief to end the policy and require the military to allow gays to serve openly. Obama has already said he'll do that while giving the military sufficient time to handle the change. DADT was a step backward because it enshrined a personnel policy into federal law.
Who would come to the defense of North Korea...No one.
China. They did it in the fifties to preserve a buffer state between them and the U.S., and they'd do it again.
Secondarily, NK has 80,000 pieces of artillery and rockets pointed at Seoul, a city of more than 10,000,000 that's within range of the NK border. In any hot war between the north and south, those massed forces have at least a couple hours to rain destruction down. It's basically like that crazy fucker Kim Jong Il has a gun pointed right at the head of South Korea; that's the context in which diplomacy takes place.
I wouldn't know, I'm not in China. I'm Canadian, and overall, the amount of regulation I deal with is fine. In particular, I note that our more stringent banking regulations preserved our financial system from the kind of world-ending collapse that was narrowly avoided by the U.S. through massive bailouts, after having repealed Glass-Steagal, the financial regulation system that had kept the U.S. banking industry healthy for sixty years.
You do realize there's a healthy middle-ground between Mad Max anarchy and totalitarian controls, don't you?
Congress just spent a year crafting an omnibus appropriations bill that would fund the federal government through 2011. It was defeated at the last minute by nine Republican senators flip-flopping on previously announced support. Seems to me that the whole omnibus vehicle for passing legislation isn't a hallmark of efficiency itself.
Does it ever occur to Americans that a fundamental flaw in their system of governance is this practice of passing bills with riders completely unrelated to the original bill? It ties together issues that have nothing to do with each other, it provides cover for politicians to vote against one thing by pretending they're voting against the other, and with distressing frequency it seems to sink worthwhile bills under the machinations of procedural maneuvering.
How about a new constitutional amendment: Every bill will have exactly one subject of legislation; any riders or amendments must directly address the subject to be considered for addition to the bill; no bill with more than a single subject will be deemed constitutional.
Isn't the MariaDB team the original MySQL team that sold out to Sun in the first place, ultimately putting it in the hands of Oracle? If MariaDB replaces MySQL as the OSS db of choice, why shouldn't I be worried that they'll just sell out again?
Turns out that the judge who ruled against the mandate, is also part owner of a consultancy that worked directly for Republican leadership in opposing the whole bill.
Given how weak the current HCR bill was in taking steps towards universal health care, how can you imagine that a much more radical (by the terms of the U.S. health care debate) bill would be able to be passed?
I'm Canadian, and lived and worked in the U.S. for six years before returning here, and I would choose our system in a heartbeat, but I honestly can't see you guys getting anywhere close to where you should be without a lot of incremental steps that are fought over every step of the way.
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This wasn't about hitting buttons, they were using social engineering to enable a flaw that became exploitable. This is no different than screwing someone at a cash register by confusing them on the amount of change they're supposed to give you, an age-old grift.
The "excellent design" of Perl?
Good one, AST.
The only reason to use PHP is if you're scripting in a shared hosting environment where PHP or Perl CGI scripts are the only options available.
If you're not, you should look at either Python or Ruby. Either will be vastly better, along with some less popular choices like Lua, Groovy, Scala, Erlang...
Basically, anything else. It's not that PHP can't be sufficient, it's that it has a long and hideously compromised development history and actually demands far more of you, the scripter, to make it safe and useful, than does any of the other scripting languages.
In general, yes, the idea of the government mandating medical treatment is scary.
But, in the case of vaccines, I'm happy to make an exception. There are three miracles of medicine in the 19th/20th century: The germ theory of medicine that led to proper medical hygiene, antibiotics, and vaccines. All three were responsible for massive improvements in the efficacy of medicine.
However, for vaccines to be as effective as they are, they need to be mandatory except in cases where there's a legitimate reason to refuse (such as a compromised immune system). Herd immunity is arguably more powerful than the vaccine itself--your smallpox vaccination is good, but never being exposed to it is better. We've actually killed diseases with vaccination.
Leaving it up to the parents is leaving it up to people who don't know enough about the topic, so they're misled by people like Jenny McCarthy touting bullshit links between vaccine and autism. That destroys herd immunity and allows parents to make mistakes with potentially fatal consequences for their children.
We don't allow parents not to get their child a needed appendectomy because their faith requires prayer instead of surgery. We shouldn't allow parents to expose their children to potentially fatal diseases because they make the wrong choice thanks to media-generated noise. We collectively allow, and should fight for, the maximal freedom for every individual. This doesn't mean that we never make collective decisions.
You're daughter probably had a reaction to the vaccine. It happens. It happens far less than the rate of Mumps, Measles, and Rubella would in the absence of vaccine, so on the balance of probability, I'd still vaccinate my kids.
You of all people should be angry with the anti-vaxxers. Herd immunity would protect your daughter since the vaccine can't due to her adverse reaction, but anti-vaxxers have dropped the rate of vaccination below the herd immunity level, and now we're seeing outbreaks where children die from these diseases.
Next time you meet an anti-vaxxer who doesn't have a legitimate reason like yours, punch them in the mouth.
What? Shredded?! Virus DNA?! Mercury!?
Who cares about the rate of efficacy over decades and the fact that the supposed link to autism is demonstrably bogus! I'm not putting mercury and shredded virus DNA into my kids!
If only someone had used these loaded words decades ago, they could have saved millions of children from being effectively vaccinated!
Do you think the Chinese are incapable of developing stealth technology 20 years after the U.S. did and made pictures available all over the Internet?
It's nice to see this sort of comment on /., where almost every posters sees the word "rockstar" and thinks "me".
I forget who said it (Paul Graham?), but they basically said "forget about hiring rockstars, because no rockstar would ever want to work for you. By definition, if someone accepts your job offer, they're not a rockstar."
On the iPhone, apps are toys that make the phone more interesting, so people are willing to pay $0.99 for them but not much more. On the iPad, you expect greater functionality, or at least better interface, because the screen is bigger and it's a more apparently useful device on which you can do more, or do the same more easily. The Mac is just the next rung on that ladder, and will command higher premiums for a better experience.
If Harbormaster offers the identical version on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, it'll cost the same. But what we've already seen is that the Ipad version is bigger and better, and costs more. Any app with a more enriched Mac version will carry a price premium for it, quite appropriately, and people will pay more for it.
The glut of devs and available apps will create some downward price pressure, but anyone offering anything that takes advantage of the greater capabilities of the Mac will still get a higher price for it. The iPad didn't get trapped in the iPhone's price swamp; the Mac won't get caught in the iPad's.
You're not off scott free. If you're a shareholder in a company that causes everyone in a small town to get cancer because they're dumping pollutants in the water supply, your investment will drop in value when the class action suit gets certified and the company is looking at billions of dollars in payouts. All the incentive you need is there to actually examine the company and dump your stock if you fear they're misbehaving.
There's no proof available a priori that the company officers will act ethically, and as far as catching them acting badly, that's what quarterly and annual filings are for. Enron was quite famously detected early on by several analysts who actually read their filings and realized that it there was a financial shell game going on; the problem was that the market as a whole didn't look. But those few analysts started the snowball that ended in Enron's bankruptcy.
The problem is 1) the size of the companies and 2) the massive amounts of money involved that tie up lawsuits for years. It's possible to get away with fraud and bad acts for years or even decades before you get caught and have to pay.
I do recall seeing a police detective interviewed, saying something along the lines of what you said: Criminals are greedy, so they're stupid, so they're usually quite easy to catch. People smart enough to get away with crime are smart enough to now that it's usually not worth doing.
If they actually pulled $80MM out between them, that's $20MM each. That's money that allows you to disappear, to buy a house on a beach in Thailand or Costa Rica and never work or care again--or if you hunger for civilization, to construct a new identity that creates a totally clean break with the theft.
Why the fuck would you stick around after stealing $20MM?
Joel's daily build mantra comes from Microsoft, where almost all products (including Windows and Office) require it. The Windows daily build farm is apparently quite impressive--which it has to be to completely build the whole OS every night. Yes, it's for large, complex projects that would previously be built weekly or monthly, creating incredibly long detection/correction cycles.
Additionally, they had a punishment for breaking the build: If it was your code, you became the babysitter every night until someone else broke it. That provided a strong incentive to test your code thoroughly before checking it in.
Repealing DADT allows the Commander in Chief to end the policy and require the military to allow gays to serve openly. Obama has already said he'll do that while giving the military sufficient time to handle the change. DADT was a step backward because it enshrined a personnel policy into federal law.
I stand by my statement
I'm sure you do, Anonymous.
Who would come to the defense of North Korea...No one.
China. They did it in the fifties to preserve a buffer state between them and the U.S., and they'd do it again.
Secondarily, NK has 80,000 pieces of artillery and rockets pointed at Seoul, a city of more than 10,000,000 that's within range of the NK border. In any hot war between the north and south, those massed forces have at least a couple hours to rain destruction down. It's basically like that crazy fucker Kim Jong Il has a gun pointed right at the head of South Korea; that's the context in which diplomacy takes place.
I wouldn't know, I'm not in China. I'm Canadian, and overall, the amount of regulation I deal with is fine. In particular, I note that our more stringent banking regulations preserved our financial system from the kind of world-ending collapse that was narrowly avoided by the U.S. through massive bailouts, after having repealed Glass-Steagal, the financial regulation system that had kept the U.S. banking industry healthy for sixty years.
You do realize there's a healthy middle-ground between Mad Max anarchy and totalitarian controls, don't you?
Congress just spent a year crafting an omnibus appropriations bill that would fund the federal government through 2011. It was defeated at the last minute by nine Republican senators flip-flopping on previously announced support. Seems to me that the whole omnibus vehicle for passing legislation isn't a hallmark of efficiency itself.
Does it ever occur to Americans that a fundamental flaw in their system of governance is this practice of passing bills with riders completely unrelated to the original bill? It ties together issues that have nothing to do with each other, it provides cover for politicians to vote against one thing by pretending they're voting against the other, and with distressing frequency it seems to sink worthwhile bills under the machinations of procedural maneuvering.
How about a new constitutional amendment: Every bill will have exactly one subject of legislation; any riders or amendments must directly address the subject to be considered for addition to the bill; no bill with more than a single subject will be deemed constitutional.
Me, for one.
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Isn't the MariaDB team the original MySQL team that sold out to Sun in the first place, ultimately putting it in the hands of Oracle? If MariaDB replaces MySQL as the OSS db of choice, why shouldn't I be worried that they'll just sell out again?
It's a joke, smarthead.
Turns out that the judge who ruled against the mandate, is also part owner of a consultancy that worked directly for Republican leadership in opposing the whole bill.
Hmmm... nah, it's just a coincidence...
Given how weak the current HCR bill was in taking steps towards universal health care, how can you imagine that a much more radical (by the terms of the U.S. health care debate) bill would be able to be passed?
I'm Canadian, and lived and worked in the U.S. for six years before returning here, and I would choose our system in a heartbeat, but I honestly can't see you guys getting anywhere close to where you should be without a lot of incremental steps that are fought over every step of the way.