TFA says the 10 "wackiest" experiments - they weren't selected for cruelty. One of the few that arguably would have been cruel as a proper experiment is mitigated by the fact that the experimenter was the only subject.
From what I've seen they they tend to err on the side of caution and if there is any significant amount of people calling for a relist, they will tend to relist it. Whereupon another AFD is held, and the closing admin decides what the consensus was.
If you really are that jaded about it, move on. I'm not, really - and, honestly, it usually works. But there are times when it doesn't, and it's a flawed system. I was just pointing out how the deletion process works.
As an admin on Wikipedia, I wonder if it really is a problem with administrators. All comics must go through articles for deletion, where the community must decide. An admin just makes the closing decision based on consensus, then either keeps or deletes the article. You're conveniently ignoring that the closing admin also gets to decide what the consensus actually is.
It doesn't matter when the last failure was - it still counts in the statistics. Yes, it does count in the statistics. A long time without a failure drives up the MTBF. Each mission where there was _not_ a fatal accident drives down the percentage of missions in which there was one.
Another common tactic for these hate groups that allows them to deflect attention away from their own vile bigotry is "straw-grasping" -- focusing solely on negative aspects of the religion they want to destroy, whether those aspects are real or invented. There are no negative aspects of Scientology, the religion, nor are the negative things highlighted by critics of the CoS* in fact any kind of aspect of the religion at all. The CoS's crimes have as little to do with the religion of Scientology as the crusades, or indeed the holocaust, had to do with Christianity.
*apart from those who make fun of their beliefs, which is admittedly in rather poor taste considering they are more plausible than those of at least some mainstream religions.
UPS, FedEx, and DHL are not allowed to compete with the USPS on letter delivery. (they're allowed to deliver letters, but there are price controls that effectively preclude any "competition")
Yes, that's true (since you could easily enumerate 51 distinct users), but the '50 or so copies' claim was hyperbole anyway. But it's not nearly enough to claim a double-digit percentage of marketshare. What "large website" is this? Websites with a smaller readership are going to tend to be more biased to more 'internet savvy' types, which are going to tend to be people who keep their OS relatively up to date (or for that matter, to use firefox or linux, which you actually tried to use to refute this). And I doubt your website is all *that* big, compared to e.g. amazon or ebay or google. Why won't you name the website?
As for the claims that the religion's beliefs are fake or insincere - well, Scientology certainly is not alone in having hard-to-swallow beliefs. Actually, some of them are quite a bit more plausible than some mainstream religions. But, when the religion was founded by someone whose day job was "Science Fiction author", and the secret meaning of life just so happens to involve wars between extraterrestrial aliens (nevermind that religions keeping their beliefs a secret at all is, you know, just a tad passé), and it just HAPPENS to require handing wads of cash to a centralized organization - well, can you really blame people for rolling their eyes at it?
But as far as most people are concerned... It's not the religious beliefs themselves that are a problem (it's no worse than most), it's the organization.
Regardless of anything else, you've failed to make your point for one specific reason - you never explained HOW AndroidCat is a religious bigot and/or hate group leader, for those to whom it isn't so "well-known" - a link to some evidence would have gone far. As it is, for those who don't already know how horrible he is (ASSuming, and that's a big ASSumption, that you're sincere in your ASSessment), you come off as a troll.
*clicks AndroidCat's homepage link to try to get some idea of what you're on about*...Oh.
Scientology.
nevermind. Let me know when your "religion" stops charging huge piles of cash for enlightenment, why don't you?
"Godwin's Law" is a way [...] to lessen the importance of the Holocaust by diminishing the evil of Hitler. Actually, it _prevents_ that by arguing against frivolous comparisons to such a terrible evil.
Is it PHP's fault that people don't escape their data before executing MySQL statements? No. Still it's such a wide problem that PHP is now going to escape all data in later versions of PHP. wtf does "escape all data" even mean? Data coming out of the database gets escaped? Data read in from files? Contents of string literals? Arguments to "echo"? How does it know whether to escape for SQL, for HTML [< etc], or for something else? magic? You put "XSS" in the subject line, yet talk about MySQL in the body, which have nothing to do with each other (hint: XSS attacks are usually caused when you actually WANT the other person to be able to write HTML generally, but fail to prevent them from adding script tags. "escaping all data", if you mean HTML escaping, will turn all their legitimate HTML tags into "escaped" <b> etc.)
And while we're here, can anyone explain why the firefoxurl handler exists at all? Though these are url handler keys instead of programs, imagine that firefoxurl is the real binary, and firefox sets up http, ftp, and so on, as symlinks to it. It can't put the real handler at 'http', since that could be overwritten by IE if someone opens IE and checks "make this my default web browser".
which is good, because it has no idea how your application escapes quotes anyway. Well, for a filename (your "C:\Program Files\somewhere" example is not a URL), this issue is mitigated by the fact that filenames cannot contain quotes.
It would not, though, be out of line for applications passing URLs into shellexec to escape quotes (at the very least, double quotes) with URI escaping syntax, in order to guarantee that _they_ do not contain quotes. They should already be escaping spaces, anyway, so this shouldn't have happened regardless
This guy didn't make a mistake at all. He was following orders. The ones that made the mistake were the ones that told him to take the tapes home. Which is why the guy who told the intern to take the tapes home just lost a week of vacation. RTFA.
Now the only reasonable question is: does AT&T support child exploitation? No. They still have language in there explicitly says that they can cut your account for illegal activity. But that was there before! (which made the claim that the language people was complaining about was for that purpose a bit hard to believe)
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TFA says the 10 "wackiest" experiments - they weren't selected for cruelty. One of the few that arguably would have been cruel as a proper experiment is mitigated by the fact that the experimenter was the only subject.
Right. And then they all vote^H^H^H^Hdiscuss it at the DRV, and some admin decides what the consensus from that discussion is and closes it.
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license = verb
licence = noun
Right, but... the thing is, you have to put _in_ 180 petajoules to get a kilogram of antimatter. You can't just find it lying around.
*apart from those who make fun of their beliefs, which is admittedly in rather poor taste considering they are more plausible than those of at least some mainstream religions.
Why doesn't the Church of Scientology let members of the breakaway Free Zone practice their voluntarily chosen beliefs as they wish?
That is a very good point. New rule: Religions which do not believe in freedom of religion are not entitled to it.
UPS, FedEx, and DHL are not allowed to compete with the USPS on letter delivery. (they're allowed to deliver letters, but there are price controls that effectively preclude any "competition")
There are lots of things that are federal crimes without implying you don't own the things you do the crimes with.
Yes, that's true (since you could easily enumerate 51 distinct users), but the '50 or so copies' claim was hyperbole anyway. But it's not nearly enough to claim a double-digit percentage of marketshare. What "large website" is this? Websites with a smaller readership are going to tend to be more biased to more 'internet savvy' types, which are going to tend to be people who keep their OS relatively up to date (or for that matter, to use firefox or linux, which you actually tried to use to refute this). And I doubt your website is all *that* big, compared to e.g. amazon or ebay or google. Why won't you name the website?
How many scientologists has AndroidCat killed?
As for the claims that the religion's beliefs are fake or insincere - well, Scientology certainly is not alone in having hard-to-swallow beliefs. Actually, some of them are quite a bit more plausible than some mainstream religions. But, when the religion was founded by someone whose day job was "Science Fiction author", and the secret meaning of life just so happens to involve wars between extraterrestrial aliens (nevermind that religions keeping their beliefs a secret at all is, you know, just a tad passé), and it just HAPPENS to require handing wads of cash to a centralized organization - well, can you really blame people for rolling their eyes at it?
But as far as most people are concerned... It's not the religious beliefs themselves that are a problem (it's no worse than most), it's the organization.
Regardless of anything else, you've failed to make your point for one specific reason - you never explained HOW AndroidCat is a religious bigot and/or hate group leader, for those to whom it isn't so "well-known" - a link to some evidence would have gone far. As it is, for those who don't already know how horrible he is (ASSuming, and that's a big ASSumption, that you're sincere in your ASSessment), you come off as a troll.
...Oh.
*clicks AndroidCat's homepage link to try to get some idea of what you're on about*
Scientology.
nevermind. Let me know when your "religion" stops charging huge piles of cash for enlightenment, why don't you?
forget software, REAL money isn't any more real than this virtual money anymore
Yeah, but the GP suggested that the next version of PHP will "automatically escape all data", thus magically preventing both sql injections AND xss.
I'm not saying your site is "for windows fans" (neither are the others), just asking - how is ANY website a useful indicator of desktop marketshare?
It would not, though, be out of line for applications passing URLs into shellexec to escape quotes (at the very least, double quotes) with URI escaping syntax, in order to guarantee that _they_ do not contain quotes. They should already be escaping spaces, anyway, so this shouldn't have happened regardless