I thought about mentioning Forbidden Planet but I figured that some might be offended that the technology was based on 50s technology being able to do anything. Huge transformers, jacobs ladders everywhere, huge rooms with dials everywhere (which incidently are reused for the Twilight Zone `future` episodes).
I forgot to mention that Futureworld was a horrible display of science fiction. Westworld was much better, both as a movie and conveying technology.
I guess you didn't read No programmer worth his pay would blindly accept any data that is POSTed or GET[got] and pass that into a SQL statement.
But your assuming 'trim($_POST['user'])' is exactly that.
What you don't see is the No programmer worth his pay would blindly accept any data that is POSTed or GET[got] and pass that into a SQL statement.
Which would be
$_POST['user']=clean_up($_POST['user']);
And the function clean_up($string) is obviously a function to look for injection attacks, bad data, etc...
I'm not going to paste code that includes Error messages for bad data, required instructions for good data, regular expressions for various form data, etc...
Actually, they all pretty much suck. ST:TWOK(2) is good entertainment. ST:TUC(6) is decent entertainment on par with ST:TSFS(3) and ST:TVH(4).
What I mean by "they all suck" is that they don't hold up well today. Watching them is like watching Logans Run, severely dated and off.
The only one that stands out as a decent timeless piece of science fiction is ST:TMP(1). ST:TMP holds up as well today as it did then; slow, kind of boring, pretty to look at and listen to. It is not nearly as dated as the rest of them and has a better vision of technology in the future.
One of the worst offenders of displaying future tech was ST:G(7). That movie is as dated as any Twilight Zone/Night Gallery episode that dealt with future technology. Why the hell do camera crews have huge cameras on their heads when a starship can view, while in orbit, people on a planet at a comfortable distance?
The worst one was ST:TFF(5) followed by ST:N(10),ST:G(7),ST:I(9) as far as being unwatchable. The only watchable Next Gen crew movie was ST:FC(8).
Alien holds up extremely well today. The only dated piece is the `mother` computer room but maybe by then, Linux will really have a foothold and command line interfaces will be commonplace. Planet of the Apes (1968) is another timeless piece of Sci Fi. Star Trek:The Motion Picture is probably the best Star Trek movie in terms of what Star Trek is about.
No programmer worth his pay would blindly accept any data that is POSTed or GET[got] and pass that into a SQL statement. Every programmer that is a hired programmer should have their own functions or classes that parse received data.
No programmer should ever use "SELECT * FROM `table`"
Similarly, a more secure method of receiving user data would be
"SELECT `userID`,`user`, `password` FROM `table` WHERE `user` = 'trim($_POST['user'])'" then validate password if ($row['password'] = md5($_POST['password)){grant_access($row['userID'] );}
(the 3-1/2" floppy version imprints whatever name you enter the first time you install- just use diskcopy to make a throwaway copy of the first disk before beginning, of course)
I actually have the 13 disks of that version and those disks are some funky 2.88MB. I'm not able to copy them.
To do an install without having to key in the product key, there was an INI file you could enter it in.
Part of the install process was to put all the install files on the hard drive, edit the INI file and pretty much have an unattended install.
It's like all those games that require the CD to be in the CD player to play. That CD requiring trick doesn't work if you have 2 drives either. It has to be in the drive that it was installed from.
I downloaded all the NO-CD cracks for all my games/Flight Sims and that increased the enjoyability factor.
I miss the gaming but I think the CD hassle makes it not miss so much. Last game I bought was UT2003 and that required the CD to play so I downloaded the cracked version. The first UT stopped requiring the CD after a certain patch level and that really made it fun.
What this boils down to is if I go into a teleportation chamber in Site A, Site B will have a block of mass that will eventually become me; atom by atom. Then the ME at Site A gets destroyed or reassembled as someone/something else.
Lets face it, this is what we all want this to come down to. Walk in a room that essentially becomes somewhere near the Swiss alps for lunch and walk back to be home for dinner. Telecommute anywhere.
I vowed to not use XP for personal reasons due to DRM and activation and I've kept true to that.
People want to A) Use Outlook B) Use the internet (that's the blue E, right?) Ba) Go to MySpace and view horrible profiles with music and such and it has to work.
Everything else is secondary; even word processing. Once that word processor doesn't function like MS Office does, they're lost.
I want a worm that extracts the product activation code...
How about a worm that changes the hardware hash after every activation and keep activating the same product code? Surely that hardware hash is nothing but a string of text in the transmit stage.
Actually is the same functionality that currently exists in XP except you'll actually have a `limited use` feature instead of "YOU MUST ACTIVATE NOW" feature.
Typical Microsoft, same old shit repackaged under a new name.
Damn. Was Cleopatra hated by her peers? We'll really never know.
Believe it or not, there are some real admirers of Paris and that is a disgusting indicator of our society. I happen to be in a position where I am privy to teenage essays and you'd be disgusted at the percentage of teenage girls that idolize her.
I used to build/repair robots in the late 80s. These were show robots that whould appear autonomous. You'd see them in the mall or other public arenas. There would be one guy with a remote and another guy doing the voice. We usually hired voice talent which were C or D list local comedians but did lots of voice overs for local commercials. They would hold the mike and a cigarette in one hand and basically cup their hand over their mouth to speak so it would appear that this guy would be smoking a cigarette in the crowd (as it was OK then).
We had many types of robots, one of them had a camera in the head and we could flip open a monitor in his chest. They were basically puppets, not robots, just made to look like robots. I had the eletronic experience but I learned alot about vacuum forming and fiberglass handling.
Starting December 31, 2006, we're modifying the above policy and miles will expire after two years of account inactivity. Mileage balances of members who have had no SkyMiles activity within the last two calendar years (2005 and 2006) will expire on Dec. 31, 2006.
And Delta was the airline that wouldn't let my friend use miles to fly to Hawaii.
American Airlines:
As of January 1, 2000, if your account has no qualifying activity in any 36-month period, all mileage credit in the account will expire except for those miles earned prior to July 1, 1989, in accounts established prior to January 1, 1989, whose mileage credit will not expire. Each qualifying activity on or after January 1, 2000 extends the expiration date of all unexpired mileage credit in your account for 36 months from the date of the qualifying activity.
I'm not going to copy and paste from every single airline but you get the idea. They also do have blackout dates with US-Thanksgiving to Christmas being one of the dates for US travel not allowing free travel.
I soon expect air-miles to be practically worthless.
Aren't they already worthless?
At least for the states, you can only use them within the continental US, you can only use them when it's not busy or overbooked, you can't reserve seats with them and have to use them on no-shows. You may be lucky and be able to use them internationally only on certain dates.
To me at least, it's far better to spend $50-$600 on a ticket than to deal with the hassle of those rules.
I friend and I were meeting in Hawaii a couple of years ago. He used his miles to fly to Los Angeles but had to wait 2 days to get a seat after in LA.
I travel and have just about every account with miles on most of the airlines and still haven't racked up enough to get a 'free' flight. Add all my miles up for a single card and I do but I'm not going to pay more to fly in airline A to rack up `miles` when airline B has the cheaper rate. 1 airline dumped my miles because I haven't flown with them in 3 years. Yeah, that's worth it.
I have a family member that visits us often and he sticks with 1 airline and has racked up miles to get a few free trips. He's single, and is able to hang out at the airport. A lot of us don't have that luxury.
It seems that miles are worth more when you add them on top of a paying fare like upgrade to first class.
The Matrix is the only movie I know of that used it and it was only when the white rabbit popped up in the corner of the screen and all the `feature` was was the special effects shot without all the effects.
You can fit all of the games for the Atari 2600 on a CD (or a couple of floppies). Hello, just market a thumbdrive with all the games on it including the emulator.
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I thought about mentioning Forbidden Planet but I figured that some might be offended that the technology was based on 50s technology being able to do anything.
Huge transformers, jacobs ladders everywhere, huge rooms with dials everywhere (which incidently are reused for the Twilight Zone `future` episodes).
I forgot to mention that Futureworld was a horrible display of science fiction. Westworld was much better, both as a movie and conveying technology.
No programmer worth his pay would blindly accept any data that is POSTed or GET[got] and pass that into a SQL statement.
But your assuming 'trim($_POST['user'])' is exactly that.
What you don't see is the
No programmer worth his pay would blindly accept any data that is POSTed or GET[got] and pass that into a SQL statement.
Which would be
And the function clean_up($string) is obviously a function to look for injection attacks, bad data, etc...
I'm not going to paste code that includes Error messages for bad data, required instructions for good data, regular expressions for various form data, etc...
Actually, they all pretty much suck.
ST:TWOK(2) is good entertainment.
ST:TUC(6) is decent entertainment on par with ST:TSFS(3) and ST:TVH(4).
What I mean by "they all suck" is that they don't hold up well today. Watching them is like watching Logans Run, severely dated and off.
The only one that stands out as a decent timeless piece of science fiction is ST:TMP(1).
ST:TMP holds up as well today as it did then; slow, kind of boring, pretty to look at and listen to.
It is not nearly as dated as the rest of them and has a better vision of technology in the future.
One of the worst offenders of displaying future tech was ST:G(7). That movie is as dated as any Twilight Zone/Night Gallery episode that dealt with future technology.
Why the hell do camera crews have huge cameras on their heads when a starship can view, while in orbit, people on a planet at a comfortable distance?
The worst one was ST:TFF(5) followed by ST:N(10),ST:G(7),ST:I(9) as far as being unwatchable.
The only watchable Next Gen crew movie was ST:FC(8).
Alien holds up extremely well today. The only dated piece is the `mother` computer room but maybe by then, Linux will really have a foothold and command line interfaces will be commonplace.
Planet of the Apes (1968) is another timeless piece of Sci Fi.
Star Trek:The Motion Picture is probably the best Star Trek movie in terms of what Star Trek is about.
No programmer worth his pay would blindly accept any data that is POSTed or GET[got] and pass that into a SQL statement.
Every programmer that is a hired programmer should have their own functions or classes that parse received data.
No programmer should ever use "SELECT * FROM `table`"
Similarly, a more secure method of receiving user data would be
YMMV
I actually have the 13 disks of that version and those disks are some funky 2.88MB. I'm not able to copy them.
To do an install without having to key in the product key, there was an INI file you could enter it in.
Part of the install process was to put all the install files on the hard drive, edit the INI file and pretty much have an unattended install.
But that's why they make 1 version and cripple it down.
Typical Microsoft lazy and repackaging.
Apple's version would be the base OS, charge you more for Expose, charge you more for spotlight, charge you more for iLife, etc...
It's like all those games that require the CD to be in the CD player to play.
That CD requiring trick doesn't work if you have 2 drives either. It has to be in the drive that it was installed from.
I downloaded all the NO-CD cracks for all my games/Flight Sims and that increased the enjoyability factor.
I miss the gaming but I think the CD hassle makes it not miss so much. Last game I bought was UT2003 and that required the CD to play so I downloaded the cracked version.
The first UT stopped requiring the CD after a certain patch level and that really made it fun.
What this boils down to is if I go into a teleportation chamber in Site A, Site B will have a block of mass that will eventually become me; atom by atom.
Then the ME at Site A gets destroyed or reassembled as someone/something else.
Lets face it, this is what we all want this to come down to. Walk in a room that essentially becomes somewhere near the Swiss alps for lunch and walk back to be home for dinner. Telecommute anywhere.
I've been saying that in the Pre XP days.
I vowed to not use XP for personal reasons due to DRM and activation and I've kept true to that.
People want to
A) Use Outlook
B) Use the internet (that's the blue E, right?)
Ba) Go to MySpace and view horrible profiles with music and such and it has to work.
Everything else is secondary; even word processing. Once that word processor doesn't function like MS Office does, they're lost.
I want a worm that extracts the product activation code...
How about a worm that changes the hardware hash after every activation and keep activating the same product code?
Surely that hardware hash is nothing but a string of text in the transmit stage.
Actually is the same functionality that currently exists in XP except you'll actually have a `limited use` feature instead of "YOU MUST ACTIVATE NOW" feature.
Typical Microsoft, same old shit repackaged under a new name.
Didn't Golden Axe require buttons? How is that going to be managed?
Dragons Lair, I'd like to see that for the iPod.
Damn. Was Cleopatra hated by her peers?
We'll really never know.
Believe it or not, there are some real admirers of Paris and that is a disgusting indicator of our society.
I happen to be in a position where I am privy to teenage essays and you'd be disgusted at the percentage of teenage girls that idolize her.
I had a teacher what would slap your desk pretty violently if you used the non-word "swang".
Those are the best teachers.
I used to love COMPUTE! for the Commodore64/VIC-20/Atari PC crowd.
Source code for games, basic word processing and spreadsheet stuff.
So VOIP is no more secure than POTS.
I used to build/repair robots in the late 80s. These were show robots that whould appear autonomous. You'd see them in the mall or other public arenas.
There would be one guy with a remote and another guy doing the voice. We usually hired voice talent which were C or D list local comedians but did lots of voice overs for local commercials. They would hold the mike and a cigarette in one hand and basically cup their hand over their mouth to speak so it would appear that this guy would be smoking a cigarette in the crowd (as it was OK then).
We had many types of robots, one of them had a camera in the head and we could flip open a monitor in his chest.
They were basically puppets, not robots, just made to look like robots.
I had the eletronic experience but I learned alot about vacuum forming and fiberglass handling.
Delta:
Starting December 31, 2006, we're modifying the above policy and miles will expire after two years of account inactivity. Mileage balances of members who have had no SkyMiles activity within the last two calendar years (2005 and 2006) will expire on Dec. 31, 2006.
And Delta was the airline that wouldn't let my friend use miles to fly to Hawaii.
American Airlines:
As of January 1, 2000, if your account has no qualifying activity in any 36-month period, all mileage credit in the account will expire except for those miles earned prior to July 1, 1989, in accounts established prior to January 1, 1989, whose mileage credit will not expire. Each qualifying activity on or after January 1, 2000 extends the expiration date of all unexpired mileage credit in your account for 36 months from the date of the qualifying activity.
I'm not going to copy and paste from every single airline but you get the idea.
They also do have blackout dates with US-Thanksgiving to Christmas being one of the dates for US travel not allowing free travel.
I have yet to spend any miles and one airline that I had miles with removed them as I haven't had any travel with them for 3 years.
/.ers would then list:
Furthermore, miles don't have a 100% return rate just like retail/restaurant gift cards don't have a 100% return rate.
Someone I consult with owns a few restaurants and offer gift cards. The return rate is 65-70%.
Some of the
1. Open Restaurant
2. ??????
3. Sell gift cards
4. Profit!!!
Aren't they already worthless?
At least for the states, you can only use them within the continental US, you can only use them when it's not busy or overbooked, you can't reserve seats with them and have to use them on no-shows. You may be lucky and be able to use them internationally only on certain dates.
To me at least, it's far better to spend $50-$600 on a ticket than to deal with the hassle of those rules.
I friend and I were meeting in Hawaii a couple of years ago. He used his miles to fly to Los Angeles but had to wait 2 days to get a seat after in LA.
I travel and have just about every account with miles on most of the airlines and still haven't racked up enough to get a 'free' flight. Add all my miles up for a single card and I do but I'm not going to pay more to fly in airline A to rack up `miles` when airline B has the cheaper rate.
1 airline dumped my miles because I haven't flown with them in 3 years. Yeah, that's worth it.
I have a family member that visits us often and he sticks with 1 airline and has racked up miles to get a few free trips. He's single, and is able to hang out at the airport. A lot of us don't have that luxury.
It seems that miles are worth more when you add them on top of a paying fare like upgrade to first class.
Bob Gale of Back to the Future fame experiemented with interactive movies after BTTF ran its course.
The only interactive people want in media is video games, and not everyone is a gamer. Most people want to be entertained.
Like Legend with the Jerry Goldsmith track or the Tangerine Dream track. Instead you get 2 DVDs.
The Matrix is the only movie I know of that used it and it was only when the white rabbit popped up in the corner of the screen and all the `feature` was was the special effects shot without all the effects.
I remember the syntax was something like
for `Hello, how are you today?`
You can fit all of the games for the Atari 2600 on a CD (or a couple of floppies).
Hello, just market a thumbdrive with all the games on it including the emulator.