Now.. of course.. IANAL.. but I really think they need to charge you with something in order to 'keep' it.
How you figure?
International travelers such as myself already have remarkably few rights when traveling into an out of the United States; they can already detain us practically indefinitely for any or no reason. Are there any laws that say that they cannot simply take a laptop from someone, since we already know that unreasonable search and seizure does not apply when crossing borders?
If I was the USCBP, and my mandate was to ensure the safety of the nation regardless of any privacy issues (which, effectively, it is now), I would image every hard drive and media device coming through a border. I think the only reason they don't right now is because of time and budget restraints.
This doesn't mean it should happen. This means that privacy should be recognized as a right that shouldn't be violated without probable cause.
Who said flash is that much more resource heavy on the server side?
Than HTML? I did. Right now.
Admittedly when it replaces an image it's not too much bigger, but when it's all over the site like it is there, I can almost guarantee the footprint of the site is much larger than it was previously.
Because PayPal's real reason for doing this is to extend the ways that they can keep you from withdrawing your money from your PayPal account, because they get more interest on it the longer it's in there.
This is why I'm very careful whenever someone wants to pay me a large amount via PayPal. I usually prefer a check or direct deposit.
Yeah, I do know about that; I was just discussing it with my girlfriend yesterday (she has a Verizon phone). Most providers don't go that way though... or at least, not here.
That still doesn't explain why they should be so interested in you using their phones specifically. They don't stand to profit more by you using their locked-down phone any more than you using another locked-down phone on their network. It's not their phone. They purchased it from Motorola, or Sony Ericsson, or whomever, and simply added those settings / their own firmware, the added cost of which is likely minimal, at least now.
You should be a bit more clear when you're stating things.
Haha, I'm sure this was a joke but we're just a three-man team right now and that won't expand until we get the first launch out the door. Besides which, this is a personal project of mine (ours), so I'm not able to pay anyone until the game itself starts becoming profitable.
I'll probably be looking for beta testers once it gets to a certain point though.:^)
I'll be the first to admit I don't know everything.
Just curious though; how would you suggest that a framework using MVC and models use these things, assuming they don't already? Create a stored proc for each query if it doesn't already exist?
There are those of us out there that know how to code PHP in a sane, clear, and secure way. Unfortunately, I have to admit that there are a lot more that don't. I think one of the things you can do is to look for those that have languages like C++ and Java on their CV as well, and also for those that have a portfolio of code to review when they apply for a job. When you actually see the code, it's easy to separate the fly-by-night guys from the actual educated, experienced programmers out there.
By the way, on a somewhat unrelated note, we're using Django for our new web game, and it's both interesting and easy to code, while still (rigorously) maintaining good coding practices. So I think there's also something to be said for those who work with frameworks like CakePHP, Rails, and Django, as those tend to both be object-oriented and to promote good coding practices.
As I've said before, I think PHP can and should be used well; there are just a lot of ways it can be used poorly.
I'm not saying that it's unique to government. I'm saying that it's slightly more expected given the stereotypes that are in-place (to which I normally don't subscribe; as I said earlier, many.gc.ca sites and their applications work quite well).
That's likely a performance question you should ask to the developers of those frameworks. I may be wrong (as I haven't heard of bind variables before now and just Googled them) but what you're talking about seems to be an Oracle-specific thing, though it may be called other things in other RBDMSs. From what I can see here, stored procs would do the same thing even faster.
But like I said, since these web development frameworks generate the SQL queries for you based on your usage of their models (as they all effectively use the Model-View-Controller design pattern), it would be up to them to optimize the generated SQL since, in general, the users of these frameworks don't have to make any SQL themselves, or at least very little.
My guess is that for these frameworks, the generated SQL is already quite optimized.
This breaks my brain, even for the normally stereotypically slow, stereotypically technology-shy government (though I will say that a lot of the Government of Canada sites work surprisingly well in my experience).
SQL queries IN THE QUERY STRING. Someone reading their FIRST BOOK on web development would know not to do that! And now God help the people who have been affected by this: try proving to the government that you're not a sexual offender when you're already on their list.
SQL injections. Learn them. Learn how to mitigate them (a PHP-specific example, but there are similar mitigation techniques for other languages). And I mean, hell, in a site like this (and especially with programmers apparently this bad), stored procedures might be the thing to implement. Or even better, use a framework like CakePHP, Rails, or Django with this sort of sanitation built into the queries it generates.
Ugh. I hope someone gets fired for this. I bet, though, that in reality this was programmed by the lowest bidder.
Hrmm... While I like this idea for the possible results it may bring (cause I mean, sex is good), I can only wonder what replies one might have received if the sexes here were reversed.
"Hey guy, you should totally try getting her drunk, I bet she'd have sex with you then!"
While I agree with most of what you've said throughout this thread, I have to say that at least on OkCupid, where I met my girlfriend, this is not the case, at least of the people I looked at. Now, this could be because of OkC's matching system (whereby the ones I was looking at were already the type that I generally wanted to see anyway), but I haven't really seen any profiles that said, "you must not be fat."
Thankfully, there are a lot of women out there that do consider personality and other aspects to be more important than physical appearance. It's like anything else; there are all types of women, just like there are all types of men out there. I did sometimes wish that people were more honest with what they were looking for in general on those sites.
I submit that if you aren't able to find them or keep getting rejected, that you may be either looking in the wrong place, or you need to consider that it might be something that you are doing that is repelling people.
Or how about this: Bad stuff happens, bad stuff will continue to happen, there are bad people out there, get used to it.
Prior restraint on coding is useless. Coding is just a form of writing. Are you going to similarly force writers to be licensed and prove a certain "quality" before they can publish anything on the internet or elsewhere? I mean, by your argument they could write hate speech, we don't want that! Licensing would help to contain that just as much as it would help to contain bad code, which is to say, not at all.
And besides, I like my right to free speech and I like being able to self-teach myself any programming language I choose. Make them require licensing and suddenly you have a handful of "accredited" schools, far fewer coders in the world, and much higher prices to get anything done. Innovation slows to a crawl. Sound good to you?
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2.5. Sell software encryption licenses and collect royalties from NBC. Fuck the customer, they don't count.
Yes, and they'll do it by calling it a post-9/11 world.
And people will eat that shit up.
International travelers such as myself already have remarkably few rights when traveling into an out of the United States; they can already detain us practically indefinitely for any or no reason. Are there any laws that say that they cannot simply take a laptop from someone, since we already know that unreasonable search and seizure does not apply when crossing borders?
And, y'know, they'll keep the laptop.
That's out of the ordinary though. If you're out of the ordinary in any way, expect exceptional scrutiny.
If I was the USCBP, and my mandate was to ensure the safety of the nation regardless of any privacy issues (which, effectively, it is now), I would image every hard drive and media device coming through a border. I think the only reason they don't right now is because of time and budget restraints.
This doesn't mean it should happen. This means that privacy should be recognized as a right that shouldn't be violated without probable cause.
Admittedly when it replaces an image it's not too much bigger, but when it's all over the site like it is there, I can almost guarantee the footprint of the site is much larger than it was previously.
Hahaha! You're comparing an abstract group like terrorists to a real, concrete enemy!
Oh man. Best laugh I've had today, thank you. The part about them "being on the run" just added to it.
Because PayPal's real reason for doing this is to extend the ways that they can keep you from withdrawing your money from your PayPal account, because they get more interest on it the longer it's in there.
This is why I'm very careful whenever someone wants to pay me a large amount via PayPal. I usually prefer a check or direct deposit.
Which Iraq do you see where Americans are both occupying it and not ever getting killed?
The world is a dangerous place, friend.
Yeah, I do know about that; I was just discussing it with my girlfriend yesterday (she has a Verizon phone). Most providers don't go that way though... or at least, not here.
That still doesn't explain why they should be so interested in you using their phones specifically. They don't stand to profit more by you using their locked-down phone any more than you using another locked-down phone on their network. It's not their phone. They purchased it from Motorola, or Sony Ericsson, or whomever, and simply added those settings / their own firmware, the added cost of which is likely minimal, at least now.
You should be a bit more clear when you're stating things.
Haha, I'm sure this was a joke but we're just a three-man team right now and that won't expand until we get the first launch out the door. Besides which, this is a personal project of mine (ours), so I'm not able to pay anyone until the game itself starts becoming profitable.
:^)
I'll probably be looking for beta testers once it gets to a certain point though.
Which service provider are you talking about that makes their own phones? Locked phones from cell phone manufacturers, maybe...
I hope this goes to litigation. Slashdot needs a new SCO.
I'll be the first to admit I don't know everything.
Just curious though; how would you suggest that a framework using MVC and models use these things, assuming they don't already? Create a stored proc for each query if it doesn't already exist?
There are those of us out there that know how to code PHP in a sane, clear, and secure way. Unfortunately, I have to admit that there are a lot more that don't. I think one of the things you can do is to look for those that have languages like C++ and Java on their CV as well, and also for those that have a portfolio of code to review when they apply for a job. When you actually see the code, it's easy to separate the fly-by-night guys from the actual educated, experienced programmers out there.
By the way, on a somewhat unrelated note, we're using Django for our new web game, and it's both interesting and easy to code, while still (rigorously) maintaining good coding practices. So I think there's also something to be said for those who work with frameworks like CakePHP, Rails, and Django, as those tend to both be object-oriented and to promote good coding practices.
As I've said before, I think PHP can and should be used well; there are just a lot of ways it can be used poorly.
I'm not saying that it's unique to government. I'm saying that it's slightly more expected given the stereotypes that are in-place (to which I normally don't subscribe; as I said earlier, many .gc.ca sites and their applications work quite well).
That's likely a performance question you should ask to the developers of those frameworks. I may be wrong (as I haven't heard of bind variables before now and just Googled them) but what you're talking about seems to be an Oracle-specific thing, though it may be called other things in other RBDMSs. From what I can see here, stored procs would do the same thing even faster.
But like I said, since these web development frameworks generate the SQL queries for you based on your usage of their models (as they all effectively use the Model-View-Controller design pattern), it would be up to them to optimize the generated SQL since, in general, the users of these frameworks don't have to make any SQL themselves, or at least very little.
My guess is that for these frameworks, the generated SQL is already quite optimized.
This breaks my brain, even for the normally stereotypically slow, stereotypically technology-shy government (though I will say that a lot of the Government of Canada sites work surprisingly well in my experience).
SQL queries IN THE QUERY STRING. Someone reading their FIRST BOOK on web development would know not to do that! And now God help the people who have been affected by this: try proving to the government that you're not a sexual offender when you're already on their list.
SQL injections. Learn them. Learn how to mitigate them (a PHP-specific example, but there are similar mitigation techniques for other languages). And I mean, hell, in a site like this (and especially with programmers apparently this bad), stored procedures might be the thing to implement. Or even better, use a framework like CakePHP, Rails, or Django with this sort of sanitation built into the queries it generates.
Ugh. I hope someone gets fired for this. I bet, though, that in reality this was programmed by the lowest bidder.
They should make a machine that scans a page with the website's text on it and OCRs it for each page view.
And some of us are not actually human. I claim discrimination, pathetic fleshbags!
Microsoft: "Pleeeeeease buy Vista! We'll even give you more eye candy!"
Hrmm... While I like this idea for the possible results it may bring (cause I mean, sex is good), I can only wonder what replies one might have received if the sexes here were reversed.
"Hey guy, you should totally try getting her drunk, I bet she'd have sex with you then!"
While I agree with most of what you've said throughout this thread, I have to say that at least on OkCupid, where I met my girlfriend, this is not the case, at least of the people I looked at. Now, this could be because of OkC's matching system (whereby the ones I was looking at were already the type that I generally wanted to see anyway), but I haven't really seen any profiles that said, "you must not be fat."
Thankfully, there are a lot of women out there that do consider personality and other aspects to be more important than physical appearance. It's like anything else; there are all types of women, just like there are all types of men out there. I did sometimes wish that people were more honest with what they were looking for in general on those sites.
I submit that if you aren't able to find them or keep getting rejected, that you may be either looking in the wrong place, or you need to consider that it might be something that you are doing that is repelling people.
Or how about this: Bad stuff happens, bad stuff will continue to happen, there are bad people out there, get used to it.
Prior restraint on coding is useless. Coding is just a form of writing. Are you going to similarly force writers to be licensed and prove a certain "quality" before they can publish anything on the internet or elsewhere? I mean, by your argument they could write hate speech, we don't want that! Licensing would help to contain that just as much as it would help to contain bad code, which is to say, not at all.
And besides, I like my right to free speech and I like being able to self-teach myself any programming language I choose. Make them require licensing and suddenly you have a handful of "accredited" schools, far fewer coders in the world, and much higher prices to get anything done. Innovation slows to a crawl. Sound good to you?