More children get killed in car accidents.. in fact it's the biggest killer of under 12's if i recall correctly..
And how do papers like The Sun deal with speeding? By declaring a success when they get the government to paint speed cameras orange to make sure people can see them.
Is there an equivalent of Godwin's Law for people using the issue of child safety as a means to do other things?
Whenever I see stories of people doing things "to protect children", I often look for alternative motives. I think press departments of governments/corporations use this as a way of ceasing debate, but they know that people are too afraid to oppose the thing done because they don't want to be seen as against protecting children.
HM Government wants new snooping powers on email - undoubtedly as the legislation gets closer, the "protecting children" trump card will be played.
Like the experts say, What MS are doing will not protect children. They will find alternative chat rooms, possibly in juristictions outside the UK, with absolutely NO regulation or searches by police being available.
In this case, it looks like one of the following is the real story:-
MS are scared of getting sued
MS are looking to get people using messenger to increase their stranglehold.
MS are looking to publicise MSN as a service, encouraging non-savvy parents to believe that signing up to MSN means their kids won't use chatrooms.
MS want some publicity to help spin the image of them being a good company with strong, secure software who care about their users after the virus disaster.
If MS really cared about children, they'd host chatrooms and put some of their massive resources into moderating them.
Of course, the mainstream media are too thick to deal with the real issues in this - protecting children through education of parents and children in using the internet.
For digital cameras, it's not being backward. At the moment, they are fine for snapping, but to get something of the quality to produce artisitic photography, you need to spend over 1500 in the UK.
Was this James Randi? Think he may have been a magician.
IIRC he has offered $1,000,000 to the first person who can genuinely prove paranormal powers such as ESP, telepathy etc in a scientific environment.
I think I also saw him doing a radio show where he showed how to be a false 'medium' and it's all to do with feeding off what the person you are talking to says.
Whilst there is no evidence of life on other planets, the mathematical possibility of there not being life on other planets is extremely slim.
Astrology deals with things that we know about (eg the planets) and at least on known physics, there is not only no proof that there is a link, but that no-one who supports astrology has ever explained how the physics of it could work.
So where is the schema definition standard for a.CSV file that is an industry standard and defines for the producer and consumer the rules governing the data format of fields?
As for dumping into a relational database, certainly Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server have tools for processing XML input and output, and I think there's limited support in MySQL.
CSV for me is what you use when you don't have XML as an option (like antiquated systems that haven't been updated).
I'm happy to hear someone make a clear argument and provide case studies or statistics to back it up (or parallels). I know I can often get defensive for my position.
But in the case of what he wrote, it seemed sloppy and badly done. Java takes 5 times as long as PHP? On what? A few examples of individual programmers working solo on a non-enterprise project. Bear in mind that I like PHP and I have little knowledge of Java.
Students have totally different priorities to a manager in a computer department. What they build doesn't have to be easily maintainable or allow other developers to easily extend it.
Java is very structured to have sets of classes for all kinds of uses. You can use it for micro programming, web services, applets, applications, web sites. I don't think that PHP or VB covers all those bases.
Any developer should be very turned on by such an idea - that you can be developing a website and reskill yourself to another form of development with less of a learning curve than another language.
I'm also curious how he equates VB with web programming, as there's almost no fit there.
IIRC XPs internal "firewall" only blocks incoming traffic.
To my mind, the main two uses for a software firewall on Windows are to 1) block outgoing traffic 2) act as an extra level of protection in case of windows problems
Seems to me that it's not likely to do 2) very well as it's going to be built by developers involved with Windows, and it doesn't do 1) anyway.
I can still get parts for my 8 year old Toyota and my 15 year old Fiat cars, because it is in the commercial interest of Toyota and Fiat to do so 9 (in s for parts sales). It's also that if Toyota stopped supporting cars after say 5 years, the cars would depreciate much faster, and they'd have to sell them for less.
Microsoft could choose an alternative model than the "try and add products and don't have them working with old software". They could license their products on an ongoing year-on-year basis, and continue to improve them as part of the deal. So, your copy of Word might cost you $30 per year, hardly change at all, but under the skin be continually improved and rewritten.
Personally, I'd prefer that. Not to have Office 97/Office 2000/Office XP, but Office which mostly stayed the same but had gentle improvements each year to do with bugs/stability/speed. It would also keep training needs down, and possibilities of software breaking with other software.
I wrote to my MEP about the issue (Caroline Jackson) and she was very clear about what was and was not to be included, and seemed quite well-versed on the issues, and we communicated by email.
However, I think that doing a face to face including other people from her constituency would be a good idea.
Is there any chance that I can see your notes on the campaigning?
One of my beefs with exception code is that people do stuff in Exception code that should be tested before attempting the action (and the exception code there just as added protection.
I've seen people do actions like attempt to create a file without checking for it's presence first, and wrapped the "create" with some try/catch code.
When I used to write COBOL code, I never wrote exception code, except to do with file handling (which is sort of dealt with for you by the File Section calling a paragraph). I always checked BEFORE doing the action.
The other thing is, I'd often rather give a user an "ugly" error if an unexpected situation has happened. Saying "An error has occurred, please contact helpdesk" only results in more time investigating.
Objects in PHP are language values. When performing operations like variable assignment and passing the object as a parameter to a function, the whole object is copied. That's a bad thing.
This means that PHP can't save any variables that can't be serialized eg. some complex objects, or resources that are tied to a process by the OS usually, eg. IMAP, LDAP, or any socket connections, file ids, etc.
I'm curious why you'd want to do this. Surely the whole point of sessions is to record things like key IDs to account numbers etc.
I've tried making sites with Java and.NET, and found both of them to be too far disconnected from the HTML that I'm trying to create.
I find this whole thing about OO in ASP.NET a bit odd, as the web ultimately has no persistence. Seems to me that the "get the query, process, spit out the result" metaphor is more relevant.
I've only done one small project in PHP, (which was a conversion from an ASP one) and I was really impressed.
If I get the chance, I'll jump at PHP again. I currently write in ASP.NET, and it's too darn fiddly. It's sold as "does a bunch of stuff for you", but if you don't like the options, the workarounds seem even more ugly. When things get tricky, I prefer to get simplicity and control.
The other thing for anyone using ASP.NET should ask is how long they think they'll be able to operate until Microsoft says "forget that, this is the right way forward" and find themselves having to reskill and relearn. The benefit of a lot of Open Source stuff will be that it's lifespan will be more like that of COBOL.
I'm doing ASP.NET coding, and one thing I've noticed compared with old ASP is that it is quite hard to code without having VS.NET. I used to code ASP using a text editor, but I don't think I can with this.
A piece of software is different from a novel because one is the solution to a problem, and the other is the creation of an idea.
I've worked with people who could come up with fundamentally the same two pieces of software because the systems architects who helped train them would have given them the same approaches.
The analogy that I could give is that of a journey between 2 points. If I wrote the directions for how to get from London to Gloucester, chances are you'd follow a similar route.
Anyways, I'm sure one could easily argue that sometimes people benafit from pirating. I'm sure if college kids didn't rampantly pirate MS Office and Windows, Microsoft wouldn't have the market share that it currently does, and these same kids wouldn't be "locked" into Office and other such software as adults.
I think MicroFocus made a huge blunder when they released their COBOL workbench with a dongle, and at the same time, Microsoft had VB without one. People may have pirated VB at home, but they were learning it, getting used to it and convincing their managers to use it.
How much work would it take for Mozilla to have an option of "bypass verisign to custom page" so that if a site you requested returned the sitefinder.verisign.com site, it would redirect you to your page?
Can't be long before Microsoft slip something like this into an Internet Explorer 'fix'.
In the UK (can't speak for other jurisdictions), so-called "small print" doesn't count.
If you introduce a clause into a contract for an product that would not normally be expected to be in such a contract, it has to be presented up front.
And the fact that an EULA is shown and you can scroll through it and should read the lot wouldn't count either, unless you put it somewhere near the top, as mostly it is repetitive stuff that people think is standard.
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And how do papers like The Sun deal with speeding? By declaring a success when they get the government to paint speed cameras orange to make sure people can see them.
Whenever I see stories of people doing things "to protect children", I often look for alternative motives. I think press departments of governments/corporations use this as a way of ceasing debate, but they know that people are too afraid to oppose the thing done because they don't want to be seen as against protecting children.
HM Government wants new snooping powers on email - undoubtedly as the legislation gets closer, the "protecting children" trump card will be played.
Like the experts say, What MS are doing will not protect children. They will find alternative chat rooms, possibly in juristictions outside the UK, with absolutely NO regulation or searches by police being available.
In this case, it looks like one of the following is the real story:-
MS are scared of getting sued
MS are looking to get people using messenger to increase their stranglehold.
MS are looking to publicise MSN as a service, encouraging non-savvy parents to believe that signing up to MSN means their kids won't use chatrooms.
MS want some publicity to help spin the image of them being a good company with strong, secure software who care about their users after the virus disaster.
If MS really cared about children, they'd host chatrooms and put some of their massive resources into moderating them.
Of course, the mainstream media are too thick to deal with the real issues in this - protecting children through education of parents and children in using the internet.
For digital cameras, it's not being backward. At the moment, they are fine for snapping, but to get something of the quality to produce artisitic photography, you need to spend over 1500 in the UK.
IIRC he has offered $1,000,000 to the first person who can genuinely prove paranormal powers such as ESP, telepathy etc in a scientific environment.
I think I also saw him doing a radio show where he showed how to be a false 'medium' and it's all to do with feeding off what the person you are talking to says.
As yet, the prize remains unclaimed.
Astrology deals with things that we know about (eg the planets) and at least on known physics, there is not only no proof that there is a link, but that no-one who supports astrology has ever explained how the physics of it could work.
Like posting as an anonymous coward?
For gods sake, the guy himself used the tag in his campaigning.
I wouldn't use an Access Database as a way of securing my list of CDs, let alone my democracy.
Then again, does Dubya have any more brothers who are governors?
As for dumping into a relational database, certainly Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server have tools for processing XML input and output, and I think there's limited support in MySQL.
CSV for me is what you use when you don't have XML as an option (like antiquated systems that haven't been updated).
I'm happy to hear someone make a clear argument and provide case studies or statistics to back it up (or parallels). I know I can often get defensive for my position.
But in the case of what he wrote, it seemed sloppy and badly done. Java takes 5 times as long as PHP? On what? A few examples of individual programmers working solo on a non-enterprise project. Bear in mind that I like PHP and I have little knowledge of Java.
Students have totally different priorities to a manager in a computer department. What they build doesn't have to be easily maintainable or allow other developers to easily extend it.
Java is very structured to have sets of classes for all kinds of uses. You can use it for micro programming, web services, applets, applications, web sites. I don't think that PHP or VB covers all those bases.
Any developer should be very turned on by such an idea - that you can be developing a website and reskill yourself to another form of development with less of a learning curve than another language.
I'm also curious how he equates VB with web programming, as there's almost no fit there.
To my mind, the main two uses for a software firewall on Windows are to 1) block outgoing traffic 2) act as an extra level of protection in case of windows problems
Seems to me that it's not likely to do 2) very well as it's going to be built by developers involved with Windows, and it doesn't do 1) anyway.
Sounds like yet another Microsoft fudge.
I can still get parts for my 8 year old Toyota and my 15 year old Fiat cars, because it is in the commercial interest of Toyota and Fiat to do so 9 (in s for parts sales). It's also that if Toyota stopped supporting cars after say 5 years, the cars would depreciate much faster, and they'd have to sell them for less.
Microsoft could choose an alternative model than the "try and add products and don't have them working with old software". They could license their products on an ongoing year-on-year basis, and continue to improve them as part of the deal. So, your copy of Word might cost you $30 per year, hardly change at all, but under the skin be continually improved and rewritten.
Personally, I'd prefer that. Not to have Office 97/Office 2000/Office XP, but Office which mostly stayed the same but had gentle improvements each year to do with bugs/stability/speed. It would also keep training needs down, and possibilities of software breaking with other software.
However, I think that doing a face to face including other people from her constituency would be a good idea.
Is there any chance that I can see your notes on the campaigning?
I've seen people do actions like attempt to create a file without checking for it's presence first, and wrapped the "create" with some try/catch code.
When I used to write COBOL code, I never wrote exception code, except to do with file handling (which is sort of dealt with for you by the File Section calling a paragraph). I always checked BEFORE doing the action.
The other thing is, I'd often rather give a user an "ugly" error if an unexpected situation has happened. Saying "An error has occurred, please contact helpdesk" only results in more time investigating.
In PHB terms, why?
I'm curious why you'd want to do this. Surely the whole point of sessions is to record things like key IDs to account numbers etc.
I find this whole thing about OO in ASP.NET a bit odd, as the web ultimately has no persistence. Seems to me that the "get the query, process, spit out the result" metaphor is more relevant.
If I get the chance, I'll jump at PHP again. I currently write in ASP.NET, and it's too darn fiddly. It's sold as "does a bunch of stuff for you", but if you don't like the options, the workarounds seem even more ugly. When things get tricky, I prefer to get simplicity and control.
The other thing for anyone using ASP.NET should ask is how long they think they'll be able to operate until Microsoft says "forget that, this is the right way forward" and find themselves having to reskill and relearn. The benefit of a lot of Open Source stuff will be that it's lifespan will be more like that of COBOL.
There are a lot of restaurant owners in Luxor, Egypt who earn less than me, but how much is their weekly food bill? Or their mortgage?
I don't anticipate it lasting longer than a few years.
What I really meant was that ASP.NET is very difficult to follow without an IDE - unlike old ASP.
I'm doing ASP.NET coding, and one thing I've noticed compared with old ASP is that it is quite hard to code without having VS.NET. I used to code ASP using a text editor, but I don't think I can with this.
I've worked with people who could come up with fundamentally the same two pieces of software because the systems architects who helped train them would have given them the same approaches.
The analogy that I could give is that of a journey between 2 points. If I wrote the directions for how to get from London to Gloucester, chances are you'd follow a similar route.
I think MicroFocus made a huge blunder when they released their COBOL workbench with a dongle, and at the same time, Microsoft had VB without one. People may have pirated VB at home, but they were learning it, getting used to it and convincing their managers to use it.
Can't be long before Microsoft slip something like this into an Internet Explorer 'fix'.
If you introduce a clause into a contract for an product that would not normally be expected to be in such a contract, it has to be presented up front.
And the fact that an EULA is shown and you can scroll through it and should read the lot wouldn't count either, unless you put it somewhere near the top, as mostly it is repetitive stuff that people think is standard.