The OP cut and pasted someone ELSEs +n insightful post (I linked it above). I have no problem if you want to repeat yourself, that's fine, but stealing someone elses glory is just lame.
To make up for my horrible over-cliched joke above, let me just say that this guy deserves to be an international hero, and there's a much better article than the TFA about him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov on the wiki. Another example is Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Alexandrovich _Arkhipov) who stood up to a superior officer during the Cuban Missle Crisis and convinced him not to launch a nuclear weapon.
It's kind of lame to say to someone who literally saved the world, but thanks guys.
I quite often see people using $PHP_SELF ( or better $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ) in their php applications (for example, for the form action on a self posting form). What most of them don't realise is that it is user input, and very easy to inject any content into this.
I think this is a major XSS vector, because this is unknown (really now, wouldn't you expect a $_SERVER variable to be safe?)
Does the parent post REALLY need a -1 Troll? You might not agree with him, but there's no obvious trolling above, but a well reasoned and polite response.
> What happens when a family member takes ill or dies? What happens if you get sick? > Or break your leg? Or (as I did a couple months ago) suffer a spontaneous lung collapse?
It looks more like you've never been to college...
If you had, then you'd go talk to the course co-ordinator or the prof. and get something sorted out. I'd be shocked if your place of higher learning did not have a system in place to deal with this sort of thing.
Speaking as someone who has spent the last 8 years at university (nearly finished the Ph.D), and 4 of those as a TA, I'd say that around 5-10% of students manage to get themselves extensions or compassionate consideration on course work, even if it's only for a few days.
If you've got the track record (i.e. you turn up to class, you hand in the work and do it decently), then we realise and accept that things like this happen. If you don't, then well, I'm sorry that your pet cat died, but you've shown no evidence that you would have passed the course anyway. Sorry.
The other trick to watch out for are the ones who manage to write brand new editions of their texts each year. Last years one is *so* out of date, and somehow all the page numbers are different, so you can't use the (much) cheaper older edition.
More to point, any half-intelligent terrorist is going to do all they can to NOT look like a damn terrorist. In fact, the people who look like terrorists (or some Fox news info-graphic boogyman of a terrorist ), are probably the least likely to have a bomb made of hair gel in their shoe soles.
This isn't news - "codecs" have been used for years as spyware/trojan droppers. Great social engineering - "hey, to view this porn, you need to install this codec". It's sufficiently tech sounding, and computery to sound believable, so it works.
--Simon
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huh, so that explains the fascination with Paris Hilton...
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Wow, getting insulted by an anonymous coward. I'll be crying myself to sleep tonight.
The OP cut and pasted someone ELSEs +n insightful post (I linked it above). I have no problem if you want to repeat yourself, that's fine, but stealing someone elses glory is just lame.
Why is this post exactly the same as this one? http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=198901&cid= 16297167 Mistakenly hit the cut'n'paste key instead of typing your own reply?
I'm replying to this, not because I have anything useful to say here, but because I just mistakenly up modded a troll (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=198901&cid =16298289) for cutting and pasting your exact same comment above.
-1 too much information
it looks like you're an angsty emo kid, would you like me to make fun of you until you cry?
To make up for my horrible over-cliched joke above, let me just say that this guy deserves to be an international hero, and there's a much better article than the TFA about him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov on the wiki. Another example is Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Alexandrovich _Arkhipov) who stood up to a superior officer during the Cuban Missle Crisis and convinced him not to launch a nuclear weapon.
It's kind of lame to say to someone who literally saved the world, but thanks guys.
(sorry)
I quite often see people using $PHP_SELF ( or better $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ) in their php applications (for example, for the form action on a self posting form). What most of them don't realise is that it is user input, and very easy to inject any content into this.
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I think this is a major XSS vector, because this is unknown (really now, wouldn't you expect a $_SERVER variable to be safe?)
For example:
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="get">
<input type="text" name="field"
<input type="submit"
</form>
Going to - page.php/"<script>alert('xss');</script> will work quite nicely (note the trailing slash after the page name).
There's a good discussion of it at <URL:http://blog.phpdoc.info/archives/13-guid.htm
> It's "developers! developers! developers!"
Argh! a chair!
Does the parent post REALLY need a -1 Troll? You might not agree with him, but there's no obvious trolling above, but a well reasoned and polite response.
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Really what\'s everyone\'s problem with magic quotes anyway?! It\'s great!
> What happens when a family member takes ill or dies? What happens if you get sick?
> Or break your leg? Or (as I did a couple months ago) suffer a spontaneous lung collapse?
It looks more like you've never been to college...
If you had, then you'd go talk to the course co-ordinator or the prof. and get something sorted out. I'd be shocked if your place of higher learning did not have a system in place to deal with this sort of thing.
Speaking as someone who has spent the last 8 years at university (nearly finished the Ph.D), and 4 of those as a TA, I'd say that around 5-10% of students manage to get themselves extensions or compassionate consideration on course work, even if it's only for a few days.
If you've got the track record (i.e. you turn up to class, you hand in the work and do it decently), then we realise and accept that things like this happen. If you don't, then well, I'm sorry that your pet cat died, but you've shown no evidence that you would have passed the course anyway. Sorry.
The other trick to watch out for are the ones who manage to write brand new editions of their texts each year. Last years one is *so* out of date, and somehow all the page numbers are different, so you can't use the (much) cheaper older edition.
the first version of this AFAIK was kitten auth
More to point, any half-intelligent terrorist is going to do all they can to NOT look like a damn terrorist. In fact, the people who look like terrorists (or some Fox news info-graphic boogyman of a terrorist ), are probably the least likely to have a bomb made of hair gel in their shoe soles.
This isn't news - "codecs" have been used for years as spyware/trojan droppers. Great social engineering - "hey, to view this porn, you need to install this codec". It's sufficiently tech sounding, and computery to sound believable, so it works.
--Simon
huh, so that explains the fascination with Paris Hilton...
The real problem is whether these things NEED 10,000 words written about them.
Why number one would have to be Slashcode, of course!
Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.
I don't think movies are getting worse - they're just as crap as they always have been.
or you see an email address, and you think you're trapped in a narrow corridor, surrounded by monsters.
( not mine - saw it somewhere ).
I could hardly put a spoiler in the summary now, could I?
Why not help out Spam Or Ham - a project to help enhance Bayesian spam filters. It contains a lot of personal emails...