Yep taxing easy-to-find in your face, perfectly legal pornography is the perfect approach to getting rid of them hidden secretive rings of shadey pedophilia dealers.
Children interested in sex doesn't correlate to children being groomed by pedophiles.
Smart, well thought out design is more important than the language you use, just pick one from the list of languages that will offer you most of the features you need and get thinking.
Wikipedia is powered by PHP and, although can be slow at times, makes good use of PHP bytecode caching and, probably, HTTP caching as well. Caching isn't a silver bullet but for web overheads and interpreted languages it is a pretty magical thing.
You haven't said what type of web application you are building, like so many Ask Slashdot questions there isn't really anything specific enough in your submission to offer decent guidance.
Just to add to the plethora of overly reactive responses to parent and to sneak a little clever remark in myself..AJAX doesn't even require a backend server-side program (other than a web server) to function. You can use it with static XML files too (for example basic processing of a RSS feed)
It's not just obscure places like Norway either (:P~ you know i'm kidding right), some of the coverage of the UK is lacking in detail, for example Multimap.co.uk shows schools, hospitals, even supermarkets whereas Google is lacking. Most of the UK's (and some of the US's) satellite coverage is still very low resolution.
It's a good web app alright, but still an infant in terms of substance for some of us.
On the plus note, I was able to zoom right down onto a relatives house in Vancouver,BC,CA. So you have to admire the Gmaps goal of photographing the entire planet.
I think he's including Firefox in the Mozilla Suite gang, and why not... as a webmaster you tend to care about how people are seeing your pages not how their toolbars are setup or what their browser looks like.
"Real" identification doesn't really exist, from the offset it's based on the trust of someone you (as a service provider) don't know or trust yourself.
For example:
Here in the UK to obtain a passport all you need is an address, to fill out a form, a british birth certificate and someone reputable (like a doctor, teacher, or your boss) to sign a photo to verify it's you and they trust in your identity.
You can order birth certificates online from the GRO for £11.50 with minimal information (name and place of birth). In todays world there is still no enforced requirement to have bank accounts or deal in anything but cash, have a telephone line, etc and I can't see what there is to verify some applications against.
Good 'social engineering', cunning, and a well chosen target from the right demographic and you can steal someones identity fairly easily.
MSN search has had rss feeds for all of it's search results (query: Slashdot) for ages. This is really neat because i'm currently subscribed to a few with Opera. This essentially means I can monitor new entries in MSN's index in (almost) realtime for such purposes as to:
Find out what my relatives are writing across the web (on forums for example) by using my surname (which is very uncommon)
Monitor the inclusion (not rank) of my webpages on the first 10 results on MSN (The feed only returns the first 10 results).
It's nice that I can now add some feeds to my Google homepage, but what I would really like to see is a subscription service to show me whats new since I last signed in, wherever I am,.. rather than a news ticker. Then I wouldn't need to rely on Opera (which I only use at home) to remember what items from the feed i've already "marked as read"/deleted.
Why don't they just join forces with the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure? That seems to me the closest
European equivalent to the EFF. Even if the goals are not exactly the same, an organization at european level would have a stronger voice than an organization based in a single state, I should think.
Tweaked Windows 2000&SP4&Upto date on hotfixes PII 233mhz 128mb 66mhz SDRAM 30 GB HDD 17" TFT monitor
Boot time: 20-25 seconds (but I leave it on for days at a time)
Software I used daily, most of which is running right now which I think is noteable: * Office 2003 (It's faster than Office XP) * K-Meleon (Mozilla based browser but native win32, not XUL or extensions) * Opera 8 (default browser) * Abiword (Use this alot) * Open Office (Use this slightly less) * Miranda IM (instead of MSN/Windows Messenger) * Adobe Photoshop CS (I edit 5MP photos all the time, but startup is a bitch) * P2P - Shareaza, Piolet, KCEasy or giftWin32 * WinAMP 5 * Borland Delphi 7 * Irfanview (lightweight image viewer) * Nvu (Mozilla based wysiwyg webpage editor) * Notepad2 for text files
Things I can't do, that I wish I could: * Watch anything over VCD resolution MPEG-4 (although I could get a hardware decoder like the X-card) * Encode movies inside 12 hours * Watch DVD's (no hardware MPEG-2 decoder but hey I have a 32" TV or another PC for that) * mIRC
Noteable facts: * Windows out of the box is slow and insecure * Choosing good lightweight software is just as important than having endless CPU cycles * Out of the box my AMD64 3000+, 512mb machine (Came with XP Home) seemed slower and less responsive.
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Yep taxing easy-to-find in your face, perfectly legal pornography is the perfect approach to getting rid of them hidden secretive rings of shadey pedophilia dealers.
Children interested in sex doesn't correlate to children being groomed by pedophiles.
Get a friggin grip.
The title was supposed to be "Smarts > Language", pray tell me why Slashcode doesn't encode html entities.
If it were a PHP application I suppose it'd be doing "$subject = htmlentities($subject);"
Smart, well thought out design is more important than the language you use, just pick one from the list of languages that will offer you most of the features you need and get thinking.
Wikipedia is powered by PHP and, although can be slow at times, makes good use of PHP bytecode caching and, probably, HTTP caching as well. Caching isn't a silver bullet but for web overheads and interpreted languages it is a pretty magical thing.
You haven't said what type of web application you are building, like so many Ask Slashdot questions there isn't really anything specific enough in your submission to offer decent guidance.
Just to add to the plethora of overly reactive responses to parent and to sneak a little clever remark in myself..AJAX doesn't even require a backend server-side program (other than a web server) to function. You can use it with static XML files too (for example basic processing of a RSS feed)
Forwarding all your mail to Gmail via Gmail's own SMTP servers is probably the most reliable method of transferring his mail across.
Server: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 465 or 587
Username: yourgooglemailname@gmail.com
Password: yourpassword
Use Authentication: Yes
Use STARTTLS: Yes (some clients call this SSL)
It's not just obscure places like Norway either (:P~ you know i'm kidding right), some of the coverage of the UK is lacking in detail, for example Multimap.co.uk shows schools, hospitals, even supermarkets whereas Google is lacking. Most of the UK's (and some of the US's) satellite coverage is still very low resolution.
It's a good web app alright, but still an infant in terms of substance for some of us.
On the plus note, I was able to zoom right down onto a relatives house in Vancouver,BC,CA. So you have to admire the Gmaps goal of photographing the entire planet.
What about the HTTP/1.1 header "Cache-Control: no-store"? Although the rfc description of what it does seems rather confusing to me.
You can add your own to Opera but you need to edit an ini file. Not convenient and one of the things that bugs me.
I think he's including Firefox in the Mozilla Suite gang, and why not... as a webmaster you tend to care about how people are seeing your pages not how their toolbars are setup or what their browser looks like.
For those confused by parents version numbers, Firefox actually contains the Mozilla version number (and rightly so).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Measuring statistics on the Gecko/Mozilla engine just makes more sense than tagetting Firefox version numbers.
Opera doesn't fail 'spectacularly'. In fact it's almost there.
"Real" identification doesn't really exist, from the offset it's based on the trust of someone you (as a service provider) don't know or trust yourself.
For example:
Here in the UK to obtain a passport all you need is an address, to fill out a form, a british birth certificate and someone reputable (like a doctor, teacher, or your boss) to sign a photo to verify it's you and they trust in your identity.
You can order birth certificates online from the GRO for £11.50 with minimal information (name and place of birth). In todays world there is still no enforced requirement to have bank accounts or deal in anything but cash, have a telephone line, etc and I can't see what there is to verify some applications against.
Good 'social engineering', cunning, and a well chosen target from the right demographic and you can steal someones identity fairly easily.
- Find out what my relatives are writing across the web (on forums for example) by using my surname (which is very uncommon)
- Monitor the inclusion (not rank) of my webpages on the first 10 results on MSN (The feed only returns the first 10 results).
It's nice that I can now add some feeds to my Google homepage, but what I would really like to see is a subscription service to show me whats new since I last signed in, wherever I am,.. rather than a news ticker. Then I wouldn't need to rely on Opera (which I only use at home) to remember what items from the feed i've already "marked as read"/deleted.From what I can make out adding your own feeds requires a .rss or .xml extension and/or no query string.
Otherwise the OK button does nudda.
You scare me very much.
Windows runs this. Nuff said
Even better devil
Yeah it's complete ad-free bloated rubbish. I mean RSS feeds of search results? Who are they fooling..bloated rubbish.
Pity the fool standing in amongst a crowd of midgets. Midjet torso's reflecting and bouncing radiation at normal groin height.
Then again your suggestion of 5 GB/month would be consistent with a fairly decent 20:1 contention ratio.
But somehow I don't think 5 GB of porno or 8-10 linux iso's is enough for the average slashdotter.
If i were a greedy bandwidth whore I would show you this
True it's great - although the ini setting to cap your upstream rate doesn't seem to have any effect for me.
Exactly. It's just like all the other standards out there. It's only as useful as what it was designed to be used for. ...oh wait.
Yeah I added mIRC onto the wrong list. I don't know why I added it but meh.
Also if you haven't noticed, no Firefox or Thunderbird. I use Becky for e-mail or just good ol' webmail.
Specs (7-8 years old):
Tweaked Windows 2000&SP4&Upto date on hotfixes
PII 233mhz
128mb 66mhz SDRAM
30 GB HDD
17" TFT monitor
Boot time:
20-25 seconds (but I leave it on for days at a time)
Software I used daily, most of which is running right now which I think is noteable:
* Office 2003 (It's faster than Office XP)
* K-Meleon (Mozilla based browser but native win32, not XUL or extensions)
* Opera 8 (default browser)
* Abiword (Use this alot)
* Open Office (Use this slightly less)
* Miranda IM (instead of MSN/Windows Messenger)
* Adobe Photoshop CS (I edit 5MP photos all the time, but startup is a bitch)
* P2P - Shareaza, Piolet, KCEasy or giftWin32
* WinAMP 5
* Borland Delphi 7
* Irfanview (lightweight image viewer)
* Nvu (Mozilla based wysiwyg webpage editor)
* Notepad2 for text files
Things I can't do, that I wish I could:
* Watch anything over VCD resolution MPEG-4 (although I could get a hardware decoder like the X-card)
* Encode movies inside 12 hours
* Watch DVD's (no hardware MPEG-2 decoder but hey I have a 32" TV or another PC for that)
* mIRC
Noteable facts:
* Windows out of the box is slow and insecure
* Choosing good lightweight software is just as important than having endless CPU cycles
* Out of the box my AMD64 3000+, 512mb machine (Came with XP Home) seemed slower and less responsive.