Heck, even the fish are having problems (reduced sperm count) because of estrogen from birth control pills in sewage, as well as estrogen-mimicing pollutants.
Most of the estrogen actually comes from beer.
Proof: Drink ten pints and you'll talk shite and not be able to drive.
But even the minor applications at the banks and other firms I've worked at have had 100s of lines of VBA sitting behind them. The big apps have had 1,000-10,000s (I've built these:o/).
For me, if there's that much code you may as well write a proper application rather than hanging a bag on the side of Excel.
a lot of interesting mathematics is stuff that's been done by people already, but where the original discoverer didn't go far enough or didn't publish everything.
...or didn't have a notebook with big enough margins.
In their system, deleting a user, did just that: deleted the record. And because of foreign keys, it cascaded through all tables and erased _all_ records related in any way. Suddenly that user... has never existed, never posted anything and generally was figment of everyone else's imagination.
LOL! I don't know what kind of system it was but imagine that on any kind of business system. Sales clerk leaves... customer calls up asking "Where's my freakin stuff I ordered?!?" and the person taking the phonecall is like... "Mmmm, what order?... and er, who are you?". Then six months later, J.Random Taxman turns up and ask why your invoice numbers aren't contiguous.
Sheesh, even worse, imagine it's a bank!
There were a ton of other bugs and issues for which it's hard to find a malice-based explanation.
Smokescreen?
In fact so stupid that if they had tried to code a back door, it would have probably been too buggy to work.
Chortle! Nobody said malice and stupidity were mutually exclusive... maybe the proverb should be amended to say "never attribute to malice alone..."
While your point is valid for application design (and for some applications especially business ones it is, sadly, the only way to do it) operating systems != applications. Or rather they shouldn't be.
Even ordinary script kiddies with rootkits won't bother doing much more than installing a spam zombie or warez/porn ftp server there. Whereas this presented an intuitive, menu-driven, user-friendly way to own a company's business data. And _change_ that data as you see fit.
I find it hard to believe that this wasn't intentional. But then I've never really bought into the Hanlon's razor mindset - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
You don't have to be paranoid to believe that it's how they would want you to think.
the main software development problem of Microsoft is the deep integration of systems,
I can see why they do it - it's difficult to have the "rich user experience" without it - but it raises the question of how much of that is really useful anyway, and how much is just chrome and gee-whizz.
and the total unmanagable chaos as a result. Everything is integrated with everything.
That is exactly the problem as I see it; the line between apps and the OS (you can throw the UI in for good measure) is both discontinuous and blurred.
But I don't think that people who voted for Bush are dumb.
Could be selective reporting, but most of the ones I saw on TV were pretty dumb - or at least inarticulate. Their usual reason for choosing Bush seemed to be "Cuz he's a cristyern".
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I don't understand. Who the fuck would want to copy Ausbloodytralia anyway?
Proof: Drink ten pints and you'll talk shite and not be able to drive.
Indiana Outsourcing?
Syntax of above headline Yoda 1000 percent.
ROFLMAO
Then six months later, J.Random Taxman turns up and ask why your invoice numbers aren't contiguous.
Sheesh, even worse, imagine it's a bank!
Smokescreen? Chortle! Nobody said malice and stupidity were mutually exclusiveWhile your point is valid for application design (and for some applications especially business ones it is, sadly, the only way to do it) operating systems != applications. Or rather they shouldn't be.
No, as far as slashdot is concerned he did that with his inability to distinguish a well-known childcare guru from a fictional, pointy-eared half-alien science officer.
You don't have to be paranoid to believe that it's how they would want you to think.
Clever & malicious would be using a perl script to do it.
So Bush calls Kerry and says "Hey, why the long face?".
No, phlog is what slashdotters do the their lhogs.
Oy vey, is it kosher already?
And Monty Casino is a gambling resort in Italy.