Going to open source with mySQL was also a comfortable decision for Solid. Both companies were founded in Finland, and still do most development there.
Well, that's not really the truth. Last time I checked MySQL was founded in Sweden, and they havn't moved AFAIK. But it's nice to see that they are trying to complete the lie with a picture of Finland.
Can someone please explain what the difference between a "small moon" and a "large asteroid" is? By my own definition asteroids are something that are flying through space and moons are small planets/rocks that are orbiting something... I guess it comes down to definition of "a planet".
Is it a matter of size or what? Why was "our" Moon not labeled: "Large Dustry Rock Orbiting Earth"?
Actually, competition is often better than working together. That of course depends on who we are targeting. Competition is a natural thing in animals and humans that pushes us to perform the best, to win the "battle" (survival of the fittest). However - most scientific research is done in collaboration between countries, but the most valuable information is often kept secret, so not to let others jump in and steal credit. I would however agree with you that competition can trigger a waste of money, but it does give us alternative ways of thinking, which is thereticly a good thing. (We all know that the best products doesn't always win, bla bla bl..) Remember that two of something are not always mutually exclusive.
(Redundant:) And I too was surprised to find that there was an athmosphere on the moon. I knew there was a chance Mars could get it, but I had no idea that the moon already had one. And at the same time I was also surprised to read that water might not exist;-)
TFA doesn't say anything about new exciting features. I wonder what made them decide it to be 2.0 alpha instead of 1.6? Was it just so that they could reach the planned milestone? I read something about they were trying to optimize the renderengine, so it could support cairo and have hardware acceleration... no promises was made, but they expected it to be in 2.0 (correct me if I'm wrong).
I guess the more comprehensive changelog (which isn't available yet) will reveal some more interesting changes - perhaps some nice performance enhancements?
they could of course try to divert the attention or try to get a better image by making an optimized and open source version of their graphics driver for X. But that's just me dreaming, and even if they did, that wouldn't make the problems go away. But it would certainly give them some soon-to-be-needed (or already-needed) OSS street credit.
But I just can't help getting the feeling that someting is missing from this story... it seems crazy that they would just sell the cards claiming them to have these features, and they wouldn't... at all. Would ATI really risk lawsuits and a bad image for that?
Resumed from hibernation - Now entering Zombie Sleep State(tm) *deep and sinister buzzing sounds comming from the harddrive*
But seriously - if there's one thing I really miss, now that i've been using 99% linux for over 1½ year, it's proper power management features. I've tried a few distros and none of them delivered 100% working power management, such as standby. I did, however, manage to get hibernation up and running, but apparently the docs on softwaresuspend aren't perfect, and I did manage to be able to hibernate - with the regular nv driver - but the properit...y.. (sorry for my bad english) nvidia driver has some problems with sleep states, making it impossible to stand by using xorg and that driver.
So to conclude: I love Linux and the freedom I get, but I do miss the "works out-of-the-box" power management features of Windows >=2000.
A lot. Really a lot. If I am to think what Google generally do to UI design and mix that up with Linux, you get an incredibly usable graphical Linux distribution (assumably with Gnome, since they focus on simplicity like Google).
What's Googles main product? Now think of what Apple did with Spotlight. I bet there are engineers that would _love_ to do some work on linux that enabled better search. In my opinon, "Beagle" has a loong way to go. It's nice, but the GUI, as it is now, doesn't really speak in favor of productivity if you ask me - more like "look, cool technology preview". But then again - I've never seen Beagle actually work properly, even on distros that ship it per default.
But let's see. If Google does half the good in Linux they do in many of their other projects, linux users are in for a treat (me being one of them). In a way - I think of Apple being *nix + [Graphics-Guru-Google], so I'm excited, how 'bout y'all?
So will we be seeing patents filed for banner ads and lawsuits anytime soon? AT&T proberly regret now that they didn't put a patent on it (or maybe they did?)
Yes, Denmark is one of leading countries when it comes to windmills. I don't know about how many we have, but you do them every once in a while when driving around in the country. We are getting more and more, but there are, like many others pointed out, other alternatives.
Wind power is great, and there are really no known sideeffects of them, besides a nice view. Wind power has been around for a long time, so other alternative energy methods are not as widespread. Each year we hear of windmill companies expanding and increasing sales, and I'm very satisfied with that "on behalf of the environment".
Our electricity over here is very stable compared to other contries, _afaik_. I don't know of _anyone_ who would complain of more windmills. When mother nature does her thing sneezing (yes, I know - it's usually very quiet over here) on the trees making them fall on power lines, there aren't much we can do, but actually NESA is putting power lines into the ground, so that's less to worry about. In short: No we are not paranoid about electricity, and yes - I personally do fine without an UPS. I bet our electronics are just as sensitive as any other electronics from Taiwan;)
However, like i said: Alternative methods are approaching, but far from popular. Amongst other methods are "wave-farms" (I don't know the formal term). Swedish scientists and Danish scientists recently improved this technology to such a point that... well i don't know any numbers, but I remember it being more promising/effective per square mile and cheaper set-up than windmills.
Like many others, I would just clearify on the differences, and un-bloat the comments made by many people that don't really seem to get what they are recommending.
Java stands for purity. The language of 1.4 is very stripped down and contructs like foreach, generics and boxing/unboxing isn't in. In 1.5 these features were needed to compete with.NET (afaik). Most of the IDEs are written in Java (Swing) making their GUI slow and heavy.
C# stands for impressiveness, "productivity" and _Microsoft_. If you ask people why they like C# many of them would (if they dare) claim that they are more productive and have an easier time developing because of the "smoothness" of the language. This, translated, means that they like the IDE, which is Visual Studio.NET, and they like the framework.
C# and Java have many the same(/or at least very similar) features. I wouldn't critizise C#/.NET for the un/managed jumps, since they claim it as a strong feature themselves.
Java is good for educational purposes since it's _a lot_ better documented, accepted and tried. C# is well for quick and dirty solutions, since the IDE is quick and the GUI quick and "integrated" (it looks a lot like native windows controls).
So in short, my experience is that Java is a better language because of so many small things, but/really/ bad because of the lack a solid, fast IDE and an integrated windows look. If Java had just has a smoother windows integration, C# wouldn't have had a real chance. C# is going to be the accepted platform for developing windows apps since microsoft is pushing it out and shipping it with new windows versions. they already started developing a lot apps with it themselves.
For the record: I know both Java and C#. My experience is that I was much more productive with C# because of the fast and integrated IDE, generics and the foreach construct - Absolutely nothing else(!)
This is what I received with gaim beta when i was sent a nudge: (13:02:48) David McNally just sent you a Nudge!
The window didn't shake or make me dizzy by any other means. However this was on a Windows XP. I am writing an assignment that requires me to use Windows ATM, so I can't say anything about Linux yet.
You hit a classic problem with all software. Software cannot be proven to work 100%. You should not try to prove it. Software is usually too complex to prove to be stable.
Why do you think everyone run betas, alfas, preview releases, etc.?
they exist. as far as i know they are production ready. my mom asked me to help her out finding out what type of mp3 player she bought, and how to make playlists work. I found the specs on the net since they didn't come with the player. noname production with OLED. They claimed OLED is viewable in all lighting conditions, but that's far from true if it truly was an OLED display. I might even go so far and say it was worse than regular tft displays. i don't know anything about the batterytime, though...
Using Cedega 4.4 there isn't any apparent problems. I've installed B&W 1, and it works fine. It is rated 4/5. Game settings won't be saved over sessions and setting to lowest may cause crashes. But apart from that it runs fine for me. I've never had a crash specific to me using linux. The only problem is the performance loss there is.
My system is debian 3.1, unstable, linux 2.6.12, with some fairly new/standard hardware (geforce fx 5600, 512 mb ram).
But I have nothing to say about B&W 2... I would love it if they did a native linux port, however.
GIMP is an Image editor (Image Manipulation Program, afair), not a diagram creator.
However I do agree that there is a need for shapes often. Mostly there is a need to tweaking selections, paths, etc.. Much like you do in a vector drawing program (e.g. Inkscape - wonderful program, btw!).
But then I have to agree with your trolling a bit. Many new users find the GIMP very confusing simply because it forces them to change all their habbits. There aren't any shape tools, changing size of the brush isn't strait-forward (it isn't visible to new users). An advice to the GIMP creators would definately be to make it more user friendly towards newcommers and improve startup time. Another thing is the much questioned window-hell they have. I am one of those users who just hate it. I know there are plugins for this, but they are unstable and extremely bad quality (i've tried). Without an entire virtual desktop to work on, the GIMP is a drag to work with, since minimizing it takes ages wasting productivity time.
I noticed a nice feature in tinyMCE (javascript wysiwyg editor) that allows you to copy-paste stuff from word to tinyMCE.
If this would really do any cleaning up I don't know, and sometimes tinyMCE has problems of it's own just keeping track of font styles (it keeps flooding me with <font> tags (eww!)).
It's not a complete solution, and others in here have better suggestions, but this feature is certainly interesting (and relevant?)
I am a webdeveloper, and I could never do without firefox with the DOM Inspector and web developer extension, but people tend to say firefox is faster than IE, which to my experience isn't right. Firefox is as slow as IE to start, and often even slower. It's horrifyingly slow at rendering >~50 input elements (which makes it bad for industrial web-based systems, that i develop - that's gecko, not FF), and even on a fast machine, I can see how a window is slowly being build up when a javascript alert appears - first the WM kicks in (same on Windows), then the background is drawn and then the controls, and lastly the focus is drawn on whatever button is default. This is the same for "Save/Open file" dialogs in FF, so basicly this needs optimizing.
But! Apart from that, I love FF. It's simple, it's very configurable and _highly_ extendable, it's open source, and it's free. The developers' philosophy for FF is "I wonder what feature we can do without in the next release?", which is great, since browsers tend to get bloated very fast.
I am so close to going on about features of browsers and what belongs and what doesn't, but i'm already too off-topic...
And in/direct/ response to the parent: GreaseMonkey is a great tool. It's so great and so flexible it's beyond limits, which means security is an issue. I disagree that it will ever become a problem the way ActiveX is, since it's not default, and users of greasemonkey are likely to know what they are plunging into when they get the extension.
To summarize: - IE is an awful browser by all means that hurts progress of the internet - Opera is a great browser for both speed and standards. However it lacks simplicity and is/too/ rich a browser. (But I'm amazed that they actually keep it a small download, still) - Firefox is a great browser for standards and speed is not a problem. With FF 1.5 we'll get "fast forward" + gecko 1.8 which will help a bit on speed. It's simple, extendable and just works without getting in the way. But it needs some work on the edges, and it's still a very young browser.
DoD-sponsored millimeter-wave human effectiveness testing, initiated in 2001, has demonstrated ADT as both effective and safe without any long-term effects.
Does 4 years qualify as long-term?
And I sincerely hope I am mistaking when I assume that someone was exposed several times to the beam over a "long-term-period" of 4 years to do some proper testing of the exposure effects.
How else could they argue that there are no long-term effects? I guess it's the same way that Mcdonalds argue that they use fresh vegetables (thus implieing that it's healthy)
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I always choose McFeast (which might not be a known menu in all countries) since it's the most healthy cuz' then I get to eat more
[/offtopic]
FF and IE includes a standard object called navigator. Within that object you may find several child nodes that tells version, vendor, etc.. These objects may be used through javascript, but this isn't the most effective way for say... hitcounting/visitcounting and other forms of stats. Serverside tracking without subsequent client requests, just for fetching client info, is much more wanted and effective imo. The UA has it's advantages, but I personally NEVER rely on it. I despise all sites that do, and I always code my sites to conform as much as possible to the standards. -> I develop and browse in FF, and hack for IE.
It's strange to see how he's arguing that he doesn't feel ashamed (a moral feeling) and he argues that he was instructed to do so, so that makes it morally legitimate?
He must be a bureaucrat.
This is all fine, and it's no news, i thought of doing this some time ago, but didn't really want to spend any time doing it as it just causes more confusion and slower page-rendering with little or no better user-experience.
What we need is a better file-form element:/ it's a horrible element that is impossible to style since it's really 2 elements in 1 - a browse button and a text field with the path. I am not familiar with any other way to make file-elements with a possible way of styling them. And it seems every browser renders the element quite different which is a pain.
It seems that much of the article relies on "SQL-injection" which is, to my experience, a disappearing trend.
A few years ago, SQL injections was very widespread.
I would rather say that the article demonstrates the eggshell-principle of how 1 bad script can make it crack.
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Can someone please explain what the difference between a "small moon" and a "large asteroid" is?
By my own definition asteroids are something that are flying through space and moons are small planets/rocks that are orbiting something... I guess it comes down to definition of "a planet".
Is it a matter of size or what? Why was "our" Moon not labeled: "Large Dustry Rock Orbiting Earth"?
Introducing "Goosic" or what about... "Moosic"... or something as wonderful as "Mugoosicgle"?
Or how about something that just as describing as "Ekiga", which is real easy to remember.
Sarcasm intended.
Actually, competition is often better than working together. That of course depends on who we are targeting. Competition is a natural thing in animals and humans that pushes us to perform the best, to win the "battle" (survival of the fittest).
;-)
However - most scientific research is done in collaboration between countries, but the most valuable information is often kept secret, so not to let others jump in and steal credit. I would however agree with you that competition can trigger a waste of money, but it does give us alternative ways of thinking, which is thereticly a good thing. (We all know that the best products doesn't always win, bla bla bl..)
Remember that two of something are not always mutually exclusive.
(Redundant:)
And I too was surprised to find that there was an athmosphere on the moon. I knew there was a chance Mars could get it, but I had no idea that the moon already had one. And at the same time I was also surprised to read that water might not exist
TFA doesn't say anything about new exciting features. I wonder what made them decide it to be 2.0 alpha instead of 1.6? Was it just so that they could reach the planned milestone?
I read something about they were trying to optimize the renderengine, so it could support cairo and have hardware acceleration... no promises was made, but they expected it to be in 2.0 (correct me if I'm wrong).
I guess the more comprehensive changelog (which isn't available yet) will reveal some more interesting changes - perhaps some nice performance enhancements?
they could of course try to divert the attention or try to get a better image by making an optimized and open source version of their graphics driver for X.
But that's just me dreaming, and even if they did, that wouldn't make the problems go away. But it would certainly give them some soon-to-be-needed (or already-needed) OSS street credit.
But I just can't help getting the feeling that someting is missing from this story... it seems crazy that they would just sell the cards claiming them to have these features, and they wouldn't... at all. Would ATI really risk lawsuits and a bad image for that?
Resumed from hibernation - Now entering Zombie Sleep State(tm)
*deep and sinister buzzing sounds comming from the harddrive*
But seriously - if there's one thing I really miss, now that i've been using 99% linux for over 1½ year, it's proper power management features. I've tried a few distros and none of them delivered 100% working power management, such as standby.
I did, however, manage to get hibernation up and running, but apparently the docs on softwaresuspend aren't perfect, and I did manage to be able to hibernate - with the regular nv driver - but the properit...y.. (sorry for my bad english) nvidia driver has some problems with sleep states, making it impossible to stand by using xorg and that driver.
So to conclude: I love Linux and the freedom I get, but I do miss the "works out-of-the-box" power management features of Windows >=2000.
What can google do to Linux?
A lot. Really a lot. If I am to think what Google generally do to UI design and mix that up with Linux, you get an incredibly usable graphical Linux distribution (assumably with Gnome, since they focus on simplicity like Google).
What's Googles main product? Now think of what Apple did with Spotlight. I bet there are engineers that would _love_ to do some work on linux that enabled better search.
In my opinon, "Beagle" has a loong way to go. It's nice, but the GUI, as it is now, doesn't really speak in favor of productivity if you ask me - more like "look, cool technology preview". But then again - I've never seen Beagle actually work properly, even on distros that ship it per default.
But let's see. If Google does half the good in Linux they do in many of their other projects, linux users are in for a treat (me being one of them). In a way - I think of Apple being *nix + [Graphics-Guru-Google], so I'm excited, how 'bout y'all?
So will we be seeing patents filed for banner ads and lawsuits anytime soon? AT&T proberly regret now that they didn't put a patent on it (or maybe they did?)
Yes, Denmark is one of leading countries when it comes to windmills. I don't know about how many we have, but you do them every once in a while when driving around in the country. We are getting more and more, but there are, like many others pointed out, other alternatives.
;)
Wind power is great, and there are really no known sideeffects of them, besides a nice view. Wind power has been around for a long time, so other alternative energy methods are not as widespread. Each year we hear of windmill companies expanding and increasing sales, and I'm very satisfied with that "on behalf of the environment".
Our electricity over here is very stable compared to other contries, _afaik_. I don't know of _anyone_ who would complain of more windmills. When mother nature does her thing sneezing (yes, I know - it's usually very quiet over here) on the trees making them fall on power lines, there aren't much we can do, but actually NESA is putting power lines into the ground, so that's less to worry about.
In short: No we are not paranoid about electricity, and yes - I personally do fine without an UPS. I bet our electronics are just as sensitive as any other electronics from Taiwan
However, like i said: Alternative methods are approaching, but far from popular.
Amongst other methods are "wave-farms" (I don't know the formal term). Swedish scientists and Danish scientists recently improved this technology to such a point that... well i don't know any numbers, but I remember it being more promising/effective per square mile and cheaper set-up than windmills.
Like many others, I would just clearify on the differences, and un-bloat the comments made by many people that don't really seem to get what they are recommending.
.NET (afaik).
.NET, and they like the framework.
/really/ bad because of the lack a solid, fast IDE and an integrated windows look. If Java had just has a smoother windows integration, C# wouldn't have had a real chance.
Java stands for purity. The language of 1.4 is very stripped down and contructs like foreach, generics and boxing/unboxing isn't in. In 1.5 these features were needed to compete with
Most of the IDEs are written in Java (Swing) making their GUI slow and heavy.
C# stands for impressiveness, "productivity" and _Microsoft_. If you ask people why they like C# many of them would (if they dare) claim that they are more productive and have an easier time developing because of the "smoothness" of the language. This, translated, means that they like the IDE, which is Visual Studio
C# and Java have many the same(/or at least very similar) features. I wouldn't critizise C#/.NET for the un/managed jumps, since they claim it as a strong feature themselves.
Java is good for educational purposes since it's _a lot_ better documented, accepted and tried.
C# is well for quick and dirty solutions, since the IDE is quick and the GUI quick and "integrated" (it looks a lot like native windows controls).
So in short, my experience is that Java is a better language because of so many small things, but
C# is going to be the accepted platform for developing windows apps since microsoft is pushing it out and shipping it with new windows versions. they already started developing a lot apps with it themselves.
For the record: I know both Java and C#.
My experience is that I was much more productive with C# because of the fast and integrated IDE, generics and the foreach construct - Absolutely nothing else(!)
That's actually what it does.
This is what I received with gaim beta when i was sent a nudge:
(13:02:48) David McNally just sent you a Nudge!
The window didn't shake or make me dizzy by any other means. However this was on a Windows XP. I am writing an assignment that requires me to use Windows ATM, so I can't say anything about Linux yet.
You hit a classic problem with all software. Software cannot be proven to work 100%. You should not try to prove it.
Software is usually too complex to prove to be stable.
Why do you think everyone run betas, alfas, preview releases, etc.?
they exist. as far as i know they are production ready. my mom asked me to help her out finding out what type of mp3 player she bought, and how to make playlists work. I found the specs on the net since they didn't come with the player. noname production with OLED.
They claimed OLED is viewable in all lighting conditions, but that's far from true if it truly was an OLED display. I might even go so far and say it was worse than regular tft displays. i don't know anything about the batterytime, though...
Using Cedega 4.4 there isn't any apparent problems.
I've installed B&W 1, and it works fine. It is rated 4/5. Game settings won't be saved over sessions and setting to lowest may cause crashes. But apart from that it runs fine for me. I've never had a crash specific to me using linux. The only problem is the performance loss there is.
My system is debian 3.1, unstable, linux 2.6.12, with some fairly new/standard hardware (geforce fx 5600, 512 mb ram).
But I have nothing to say about B&W 2... I would love it if they did a native linux port, however.
GIMP is an Image editor (Image Manipulation Program, afair), not a diagram creator.
However I do agree that there is a need for shapes often. Mostly there is a need to tweaking selections, paths, etc.. Much like you do in a vector drawing program (e.g. Inkscape - wonderful program, btw!).
But then I have to agree with your trolling a bit. Many new users find the GIMP very confusing simply because it forces them to change all their habbits. There aren't any shape tools, changing size of the brush isn't strait-forward (it isn't visible to new users).
An advice to the GIMP creators would definately be to make it more user friendly towards newcommers and improve startup time. Another thing is the much questioned window-hell they have. I am one of those users who just hate it. I know there are plugins for this, but they are unstable and extremely bad quality (i've tried).
Without an entire virtual desktop to work on, the GIMP is a drag to work with, since minimizing it takes ages wasting productivity time.
I noticed a nice feature in tinyMCE (javascript wysiwyg editor) that allows you to copy-paste stuff from word to tinyMCE.
If this would really do any cleaning up I don't know, and sometimes tinyMCE has problems of it's own just keeping track of font styles (it keeps flooding me with <font> tags (eww!)).
It's not a complete solution, and others in here have better suggestions, but this feature is certainly interesting (and relevant?)
I must agree, Opera is faster.
/direct/ response to the parent:
/too/ rich a browser. (But I'm amazed that they actually keep it a small download, still)
I am a webdeveloper, and I could never do without firefox with the DOM Inspector and web developer extension, but people tend to say firefox is faster than IE, which to my experience isn't right. Firefox is as slow as IE to start, and often even slower. It's horrifyingly slow at rendering >~50 input elements (which makes it bad for industrial web-based systems, that i develop - that's gecko, not FF), and even on a fast machine, I can see how a window is slowly being build up when a javascript alert appears - first the WM kicks in (same on Windows), then the background is drawn and then the controls, and lastly the focus is drawn on whatever button is default. This is the same for "Save/Open file" dialogs in FF, so basicly this needs optimizing.
But! Apart from that, I love FF. It's simple, it's very configurable and _highly_ extendable, it's open source, and it's free. The developers' philosophy for FF is "I wonder what feature we can do without in the next release?", which is great, since browsers tend to get bloated very fast.
I am so close to going on about features of browsers and what belongs and what doesn't, but i'm already too off-topic...
And in
GreaseMonkey is a great tool. It's so great and so flexible it's beyond limits, which means security is an issue. I disagree that it will ever become a problem the way ActiveX is, since it's not default, and users of greasemonkey are likely to know what they are plunging into when they get the extension.
To summarize:
- IE is an awful browser by all means that hurts progress of the internet
- Opera is a great browser for both speed and standards. However it lacks simplicity and is
- Firefox is a great browser for standards and speed is not a problem. With FF 1.5 we'll get "fast forward" + gecko 1.8 which will help a bit on speed. It's simple, extendable and just works without getting in the way. But it needs some work on the edges, and it's still a very young browser.
There. I said it.
We are the borg! Resistance is futil; You WILL be assimilated.
Seriously - this is a great invention that does some good without scaring those people who belive in robots will take over some day.
I'd hate to be the mugger of anyone with a device like this...
Does 4 years qualify as long-term?
And I sincerely hope I am mistaking when I assume that someone was exposed several times to the beam over a "long-term-period" of 4 years to do some proper testing of the exposure effects. How else could they argue that there are no long-term effects? I guess it's the same way that Mcdonalds argue that they use fresh vegetables (thus implieing that it's healthy)
[offtopic]
I always choose McFeast (which might not be a known menu in all countries) since it's the most healthy cuz' then I get to eat more
[/offtopic]
FF and IE includes a standard object called navigator.
Within that object you may find several child nodes that tells version, vendor, etc..
These objects may be used through javascript, but this isn't the most effective way for say... hitcounting/visitcounting and other forms of stats.
Serverside tracking without subsequent client requests, just for fetching client info, is much more wanted and effective imo.
The UA has it's advantages, but I personally NEVER rely on it. I despise all sites that do, and I always code my sites to conform as much as possible to the standards.
-> I develop and browse in FF, and hack for IE.
It's strange to see how he's arguing that he doesn't feel ashamed (a moral feeling) and he argues that he was instructed to do so, so that makes it morally legitimate? He must be a bureaucrat.
This is all fine, and it's no news, i thought of doing this some time ago, but didn't really want to spend any time doing it as it just causes more confusion and slower page-rendering with little or no better user-experience.
:/ it's a horrible element that is impossible to style since it's really 2 elements in 1 - a browse button and a text field with the path.
What we need is a better file-form element
I am not familiar with any other way to make file-elements with a possible way of styling them. And it seems every browser renders the element quite different which is a pain.
It seems that much of the article relies on "SQL-injection" which is, to my experience, a disappearing trend. A few years ago, SQL injections was very widespread. I would rather say that the article demonstrates the eggshell-principle of how 1 bad script can make it crack.