The first programs of any significance I ever wrote started when I was in the 8th grade and realized my TI-83+ could do most of my homework for me if I learned how to program it. That was the beginning of an academic downward spiral, but now that I'm in the working world I don't regret it at all because writing programs to do work in the place of humans is my job now.
If you want to use C# because it's similar to Java and is freely available, why not use Java? It has awesome tools available and is just as (moreso?) free as C#. Since we're talking about free, what decent programming language exists that is not free nowadays or does not have loads of free support material available?
It might be tough to actually solve a problem in assembly languages, but at least they're straightforward in the sense that it always does exactly what the documentation says it does. Each command is so simple that there's no chance you'll get hit with a language bug. Then again, maybe assembly just seems like a warm fuzzy bed of consistency since I have to use PHP at work.
I wasn't being entirely serious there, but it's a better idea than blasting shitty music at them. The point of the post was that any idea is a better idea than what they're doing now.
Sleep deprivation can kill. I certainly call that inhumane. Living a life that has no future except being locked in a prison for decades sounds like torture, too. When life is worse than simply being pointless and the mental cost of living another day outweighs the benefits, that's a tortured life. There's plenty of people who live lives like this, imprisoned or not, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing or that America can be proud of imposing this state of life on anyone.
Also keep in mind that these people have been there for years. What new information could they ever give to us?
Instead of spending effort tormenting the detainees so that they hate us even more, it seems the time could be better spent re-educating them into lovers of America. We've currently got no reason to keep them there, so at least we could find something remotely constructive to do while this is going on. Then again, our entire prison system is based on locking people away for arbitrary (and long!) amounts of time rather than actually doing anything with those people.
Why would any self respecting university volunteer itself for this?
I know my alma mater would never put up with this and I suspect most other universities have the same sense of dignity. This plan cannot possibly succeed.
Sandboxes for legacy apps will remind consumers that they didn't want to upgrade in the first place.
Of course, they can't help but upgrade since their new computer came with the new Windows and they're not going to go spend $100 on XP since they already have an OS.
So the real key to this is using AJAX like everyone else (Google, Yahoo, Slashdot, my employer's internal web apps, my grandmother) instead of some proprietary ActiveX bullshit.
I'm pretty sure the cult preys upon folks in Hollywood because they're loaded with money and are potentially insecure or can be swayed more easily by their emotions because they're artsy people. I believe that some people who have participated in many great films like John Travolta and Tom Cruise are the victims here, not to mention all the other, less profitable victims outside Hollywood. The people doing the scamming do not want to be in the spotlight the way those actors are.
If you look at how people outside Scientology treat the cult's victims (Tom Cruise) like lepers instead of offering an outside world of love and compassion, maybe it does make sense for him to think that the world is out to get him.
What people in cults need is to feel welcomed into the world outside the cult; otherwise, they'll just get pushed farther into their fantasy world.
Kaspersky can't figure it out because a virus scanner can't fix a web application. Fixing SQL injections is beyond their realm.
Travelocity can't figure it out because their developers must suck. Travelocity is well-known because they have a decent service, not because the software that runs the service is really great software.
I develop web applications for a living right now and as someone who's only been in this game for a few months, this disgusts me. I already know how to prevent SQL injection with prepared statements. It's easy to do and requires no extra knowledge, so why doesn't everyone do this?
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The first programs of any significance I ever wrote started when I was in the 8th grade and realized my TI-83+ could do most of my homework for me if I learned how to program it. That was the beginning of an academic downward spiral, but now that I'm in the working world I don't regret it at all because writing programs to do work in the place of humans is my job now.
If you want to use C# because it's similar to Java and is freely available, why not use Java? It has awesome tools available and is just as (moreso?) free as C#. Since we're talking about free, what decent programming language exists that is not free nowadays or does not have loads of free support material available?
It might be tough to actually solve a problem in assembly languages, but at least they're straightforward in the sense that it always does exactly what the documentation says it does. Each command is so simple that there's no chance you'll get hit with a language bug. Then again, maybe assembly just seems like a warm fuzzy bed of consistency since I have to use PHP at work.
I wasn't being entirely serious there, but it's a better idea than blasting shitty music at them. The point of the post was that any idea is a better idea than what they're doing now.
Sleep deprivation can kill. I certainly call that inhumane. Living a life that has no future except being locked in a prison for decades sounds like torture, too. When life is worse than simply being pointless and the mental cost of living another day outweighs the benefits, that's a tortured life. There's plenty of people who live lives like this, imprisoned or not, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing or that America can be proud of imposing this state of life on anyone.
Also keep in mind that these people have been there for years. What new information could they ever give to us?
Instead of spending effort tormenting the detainees so that they hate us even more, it seems the time could be better spent re-educating them into lovers of America. We've currently got no reason to keep them there, so at least we could find something remotely constructive to do while this is going on. Then again, our entire prison system is based on locking people away for arbitrary (and long!) amounts of time rather than actually doing anything with those people.
Why would any self respecting university volunteer itself for this?
I know my alma mater would never put up with this and I suspect most other universities have the same sense of dignity. This plan cannot possibly succeed.
I'm really glad the last sentence of that post was a joke instead of "I run Linux."
I love job interviews that involve "Your resume says Java, so you must do some Javascript since they're so similar, right?"
At that point, telling the truth becomes a very hard decision to make.
then loading the blacklist of unwanted sites.
Obviously someone wants these sites, else there would be no need to blacklist them.
What about the majority of the videos on Youtube?
This may be one more facet of their plan to make XP and 2k irrelevant. If their old OS won't support the new hardware, it's time to upgrade!
It's not a full-blown new filesystem; it's still just a new flavor of FAT.
Time for OSS to step up to the plate and make a GPL equivalent!
Sandboxes for legacy apps will remind consumers that they didn't want to upgrade in the first place.
Of course, they can't help but upgrade since their new computer came with the new Windows and they're not going to go spend $100 on XP since they already have an OS.
I think most fairly successful people in /the pr0n/ business have to have some man in them to some degree.
FTFY
Yeah, I really don't understand why people complain about MS Office when Open Office runs like a turd MS Office does not.
Microsoft certainly has one good product; Office is great as long as you ignore Access.
So the real key to this is using AJAX like everyone else (Google, Yahoo, Slashdot, my employer's internal web apps, my grandmother) instead of some proprietary ActiveX bullshit.
Way to go, Microsoft!
...more like former husband
I'm pretty sure the cult preys upon folks in Hollywood because they're loaded with money and are potentially insecure or can be swayed more easily by their emotions because they're artsy people. I believe that some people who have participated in many great films like John Travolta and Tom Cruise are the victims here, not to mention all the other, less profitable victims outside Hollywood. The people doing the scamming do not want to be in the spotlight the way those actors are.
If you look at how people outside Scientology treat the cult's victims (Tom Cruise) like lepers instead of offering an outside world of love and compassion, maybe it does make sense for him to think that the world is out to get him.
What people in cults need is to feel welcomed into the world outside the cult; otherwise, they'll just get pushed farther into their fantasy world.
You can run, but you cannot escape :-)
Dammit! Magic quotes!
Kaspersky can't figure it out because a virus scanner can't fix a web application. Fixing SQL injections is beyond their realm.
Travelocity can't figure it out because their developers must suck. Travelocity is well-known because they have a decent service, not because the software that runs the service is really great software.
The more I think about it, the more I think your post should read
"...disgusting, inexcusable, and potentially hilarious."
I'd say fully half of them will be below median.
I develop web applications for a living right now and as someone who's only been in this game for a few months, this disgusts me. I already know how to prevent SQL injection with prepared statements. It's easy to do and requires no extra knowledge, so why doesn't everyone do this?