I don't know about you, Santa, but internet is a vital part of my workplace. I do.NET apps for Colorado State U, and when your business is providing internet service to users (just like those fellas doing LAN gaming places or net cafes), blocking port 80 is beyond dumb; it fucks up your entire business model. Let's just nuke Level 3 and take out the internet while we're at it...back to BBS? I don't think so.
Kinda the same thing with guns, cars+alcohol, the US military, or laser pointers...as long as there are idiots out there, we will have problems with these things being misused. In the mean time, they do have legitimate purposes, and you can't just deny everyone their use because a handful of dumbasses abuse them.
Any business, and ESPECIALLY any IT shop, has to be pretty archaic NOT to need to use the internet often. The solution is to kick those douche-bags who write spyware in the face and secure your network with the solutions mentioned earlier.
Marketing types rank lowest in brains (hell, they ruin companies!) according to Scott Adams, and he's the man. I doubt there's many Mac users in DNRC...
How many programmers do you know who prefer Mac? Gamers? Unless you're "playing" Photoshop...hehe
At least they're becoming more compatible in the hardware department.
"What color do you want that SQL server in?" "I think mauve has the most ram"
Mostly NULL are used by people who do not normlise the database enough - they are lazy.
While this is true, there are definitely instances where NULL is necessary (unless one is unreasonably inclined against it and takes ridiculous steps to avoid them). Prime example being the "Date of Death" example above. Some information is not known. Preventing users from making a record entry due to not knowing a non-key field or designing a subtable for each attribute is ridiculous for real world applications.
Just goes to show some people need to have a glass of reality...I use XML to read from SQL and that works flawlessly for my job. While Puritans scoff, the rest of us are delivering information to end-users.
Machine cycles are cheap, but performing a 20x INNER JOIN is gonna take a hell of a long time, especially with 20,000+ records (student database at a large state U like mine), compared to grabbing a null (takes zero extra time). Get real!
What if (and this is pretty much impossible:( ) your ISP just happened to delete it's IP logfiles? Of course, if someone were to do it for them...that's a little more realistic...
How about third amendment? Right against unreasonable search and seizure...normally applicable to physical search by the police...but what about "seizure" of personal information without permission...that's theft. Utah judges are bullshit.
I know the 3rd amendment is intended for the government, but maybe it ought to be considered extensible in this circumstance?
Actually, I'm surprised no-one has brought up harassment either (that I've heard of thus far).
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I don't know about you, Santa, but internet is a vital part of my workplace. I do .NET apps for Colorado State U, and when your business is providing internet service to users (just like those fellas doing LAN gaming places or net cafes), blocking port 80 is beyond dumb; it fucks up your entire business model. Let's just nuke Level 3 and take out the internet while we're at it...back to BBS? I don't think so.
Kinda the same thing with guns, cars+alcohol, the US military, or laser pointers...as long as there are idiots out there, we will have problems with these things being misused. In the mean time, they do have legitimate purposes, and you can't just deny everyone their use because a handful of dumbasses abuse them.
Any business, and ESPECIALLY any IT shop, has to be pretty archaic NOT to need to use the internet often. The solution is to kick those douche-bags who write spyware in the face and secure your network with the solutions mentioned earlier.
Marketing types rank lowest in brains (hell, they ruin companies!) according to Scott Adams, and he's the man. I doubt there's many Mac users in DNRC...
How many programmers do you know who prefer Mac? Gamers? Unless you're "playing" Photoshop...hehe
At least they're becoming more compatible in the hardware department.
"What color do you want that SQL server in?"
"I think mauve has the most ram"
Word...
Quite Orwellian, isn't it?
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
(excuse the improper quotation, apparently the lameness filter doesn't like Big Brother, heheh)
So Ali Baba wants to be able to play Doom III what's the big deal? The pentagon shouldn't be the only ones able to play it at full res.
Mostly NULL are used by people who do not normlise the database enough - they are lazy.
While this is true, there are definitely instances where NULL is necessary (unless one is unreasonably inclined against it and takes ridiculous steps to avoid them). Prime example being the "Date of Death" example above. Some information is not known. Preventing users from making a record entry due to not knowing a non-key field or designing a subtable for each attribute is ridiculous for real world applications.
Just goes to show some people need to have a glass of reality...I use XML to read from SQL and that works flawlessly for my job. While Puritans scoff, the rest of us are delivering information to end-users.
Machine cycles are cheap, but performing a 20x INNER JOIN is gonna take a hell of a long time, especially with 20,000+ records (student database at a large state U like mine), compared to grabbing a null (takes zero extra time). Get real!
Duh, I'm stupid! 4th Amendment....(that's what I get for posting at 0730 :b )
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What if (and this is pretty much impossible :( ) your ISP just happened to delete it's IP logfiles? Of course, if someone were to do it for them...that's a little more realistic...
File sharing is terrorism! Habeas corpus? wtf is that?!?
How about third amendment? Right against unreasonable search and seizure...normally applicable to physical search by the police...but what about "seizure" of personal information without permission...that's theft. Utah judges are bullshit. I know the 3rd amendment is intended for the government, but maybe it ought to be considered extensible in this circumstance? Actually, I'm surprised no-one has brought up harassment either (that I've heard of thus far).