How about encouraging participation by actually making it easier for people to post and talk, rather than worrying about how to prevent them from doing so?
And once you've paid for something you could get for free anywhere else, you pretty much have to convince yourself you're getting your money's worth, and thus everybody is happy!
If it's not the default, it's useless. Nobody will know about it, and nobody will use it. The people most likely to know about it are the people who are the least likely to write insecure code in the first place - experienced programmers.
You really are making the GNAA look unprofessional with that horrible grammar and prose that reeks of overreaching your abilities as a writer. Here, let me fix that for you:
In a self-congratulatory press conference described by one historical analyst as being "worth 10 Dresdens", the now world-famous egalitarians of the Gay Nigger Association of America announced to the world press that their highly successful open source "LastMeasure" project has now reached over one hundred thousand homes across the world.
Amidst a snowstorm of tickertape and parade-like festivity, Penisbird, one of the founders of the LastMeasure project, screeched triumphantly from his gold-plated dong perch that the exponental growth of the popular shock site can only continue. Even those outside the GNAA's dark-skinned sphere of influence can only agree, when faced with the cutting-edge "xangadot" marketing techniques employed by GNAA LM sales reps Incog, Saturn, Trake, qat, and Zeikfred Tuvai.
The sheer ferocity of the xangadot effect has caught many by surprise, none more so than xanga spokesperson AzN_ThuG_08, who was quoted as saying "MUTHAFUCKA TAKE DOWN MAH SITE...BITCH IM LETTIN U...FUCK DIS SITE AND FUCK U TOO. I CAN MAKE A NEW ONE I GOT THA TIME u stupid muthafucka" before driving his nitroglycerin-laced riced-up Honda into the GNAA headquarters in a dastardly as well as suicidal attempt to decapitate the GNAA leadership. Thankfully the 140 decibel exhaust noise of the now vapourised vehicle allowed the surrounding buildings to be evacuated several minutes before the atrocity took place.
Speaking from his converted 1970's brothel, overpaid financial analyst Gary Niger told Reuters, "The effects of what has been dubbed the 'Open Source Final Solution' can be felt in almost every area of digital society. A striking example of this would be the once worthless.info TLD being re-energised with a huge cash and semen injection from the GNAA LastMeasure project, punctuated by Netcraft's recent confirmation that the GNAA has gained a massive controlling stake in.info during the past 2 months".
Can this momentum continue? Or has LastMeasure reached its unsurpassable zenith, its only remaining direction being a downwards fall? GNAA President timecop refused to comment, instead choosing to bathe naked in a pool of Yen, laughing insanely. The future seems bright.
About LastMeasure:
A primitive version of LastMeasure was concieved by Penisbird of the GNAA after playing with an AIM utility named AIM Invader. It offered Penisbird a myriad of ways to crash AIM clients. By far the most powerful crash was the "last measure" crash, which would inundate an AIM client with file transfer requests, buddy list sends, messages full of smileys and colors, until the AIM client crashed due to lack of RAM.
The LastMeasure site originally consisted of Penisbird, Goatse, Tubgirl, Lemonparty, and Shitfaced Lady. This has since expanded to include many other of the internet's treasured icons. And with the addition of StatsMeasure, the clipboard data of thousands of unwitting victims has now been exposed for the world to see.
For more information about LastMeasure, visit the official website, LastMeasure.com
Ok, let's make something clear. I am physicist. "Think of it as a rubber band airplane" is not going to work here.
You obviously have very little understanding of conservation of momentum, and you've confusing it with conservation of energy, a completely different thing. Momentum is a vector quantity. You cannot "store" momentum like you store energy. A rubber band airplane conserves momentum by moving air backwards in order to move itself forward. A wound-up rubber band airplane has zero momentum. The combined system of the air and the airplane has zer momentum as it moves forward. Thus, momentum is conserved.
This device, on the other hand, does nothing cancel out the increase of momentum it supposedly creates. This is plainly and simply impossible.
I will not even go into the issue of gravity and acceleration, because I suspect it would be beyond you. Please brush up on your basic Newtonian mechanics, at least, before making arguments about it.
The article specifically talks about velocity and not acceleration. Even assuming the article is just badly written, and actually means acceleration, the claim that the engine could be used for hovering instead of propulsion shows a total lack of understanding of general relativity, where gravitation and acceleration are indistinguishable.
I think you are trying to interpret the article in a way that makes sense, when in fact the article does not make sense. But even your alternate interpretation does not conform to known laws of physics, such as conservation of momentum.
Yes, that's the part where you should finally realize the whole thing is nothing but bullshit.
He's claiming that the effect depends on the absolute velocity of the engine - a concept that has been meaningless ever since we did away with the coelestial aether and Maxwellian electrodynamics.
He's not using relativity, he's using the exact opposite.
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I award you one not-allowed-to-moderate-any-more point!
This line is an instant classic, just so you know.
Or so you tell yourself, because hey, who would want to pay for nothing?
How about encouraging participation by actually making it easier for people to post and talk, rather than worrying about how to prevent them from doing so?
For instance, see http://blog.topix.net/archives/000106.html
And once you've paid for something you could get for free anywhere else, you pretty much have to convince yourself you're getting your money's worth, and thus everybody is happy!
If it's not the default, it's useless. Nobody will know about it, and nobody will use it. The people most likely to know about it are the people who are the least likely to write insecure code in the first place - experienced programmers.
Right, "out of the box" is the operative phrase here. If it's not there right in front of every single user, people won't bother with it.
Most languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, for instance) have had better APIs for years and years.
PHP doesn't.
Here's why: PHP doesn't even support them out of the box.
PHP is quite probably the single biggest cause of SQL injection attacks on the web.
Welcome to totally missing the point. Let's try this again:
What, exactly, do you think malware wants to do that it can't already do when running under a "limited" account?
I'm sorry if the big words confused you.
Oh yeah, "self-referential irony". That's the ticket. Definitely not technophobic snobbishness or anything.
Because, god knows, you can't do a goddamn thing with a computer if you don't have administrator priviledges, right?
Curiously, 100% of correctly coded web sites still work perfectly
Where "correctly coded" is defined as "works perfectly when I've turned off Javascript", right? God, what a useless statement to make.
You are saving PNGs as 24-bit RGB instead of paletted. Stop doing that.
Except of course that they are, in fact, really very safe.
So it's a good idea, right?
You really are making the GNAA look unprofessional with that horrible grammar and prose that reeks of overreaching your abilities as a writer. Here, let me fix that for you:
.info TLD being re-energised with a huge cash and semen injection from the GNAA LastMeasure project, punctuated by Netcraft's recent confirmation that the GNAA has gained a massive controlling stake in .info during the past 2 months".
In a self-congratulatory press conference described by one historical analyst as being "worth 10 Dresdens", the now world-famous egalitarians of the Gay Nigger Association of America announced to the world press that their highly successful open source "LastMeasure" project has now reached over one hundred thousand homes across the world.
Amidst a snowstorm of tickertape and parade-like festivity, Penisbird, one of the founders of the LastMeasure project, screeched triumphantly from his gold-plated dong perch that the exponental growth of the popular shock site can only continue. Even those outside the GNAA's dark-skinned sphere of influence can only agree, when faced with the cutting-edge "xangadot" marketing techniques employed by GNAA LM sales reps Incog, Saturn, Trake, qat, and Zeikfred Tuvai.
The sheer ferocity of the xangadot effect has caught many by surprise, none more so than xanga spokesperson AzN_ThuG_08, who was quoted as saying "MUTHAFUCKA TAKE DOWN MAH SITE...BITCH IM LETTIN U...FUCK DIS SITE AND FUCK U TOO. I CAN MAKE A NEW ONE I GOT THA TIME u stupid muthafucka" before driving his nitroglycerin-laced riced-up Honda into the GNAA headquarters in a dastardly as well as suicidal attempt to decapitate the GNAA leadership. Thankfully the 140 decibel exhaust noise of the now vapourised vehicle allowed the surrounding buildings to be evacuated several minutes before the atrocity took place.
Speaking from his converted 1970's brothel, overpaid financial analyst Gary Niger told Reuters, "The effects of what has been dubbed the 'Open Source Final Solution' can be felt in almost every area of digital society. A striking example of this would be the once worthless
Can this momentum continue? Or has LastMeasure reached its unsurpassable zenith, its only remaining direction being a downwards fall? GNAA President timecop refused to comment, instead choosing to bathe naked in a pool of Yen, laughing insanely. The future seems bright.
About LastMeasure:
A primitive version of LastMeasure was concieved by Penisbird of the GNAA after playing with an AIM utility named AIM Invader. It offered Penisbird a myriad of ways to crash AIM clients. By far the most powerful crash was the "last measure" crash, which would inundate an AIM client with file transfer requests, buddy list sends, messages full of smileys and colors, until the AIM client crashed due to lack of RAM.
The LastMeasure site originally consisted of Penisbird, Goatse, Tubgirl, Lemonparty, and Shitfaced Lady. This has since expanded to include many other of the internet's treasured icons. And with the addition of StatsMeasure, the clipboard data of thousands of unwitting victims has now been exposed for the world to see.
For more information about LastMeasure, visit the official website, LastMeasure.com
Can we have that article again, this time in English, please?
Slashdotters going for the obvious bait in the article summary. What else is new?
Ok, let's make something clear. I am physicist. "Think of it as a rubber band airplane" is not going to work here.
You obviously have very little understanding of conservation of momentum, and you've confusing it with conservation of energy, a completely different thing. Momentum is a vector quantity. You cannot "store" momentum like you store energy. A rubber band airplane conserves momentum by moving air backwards in order to move itself forward. A wound-up rubber band airplane has zero momentum. The combined system of the air and the airplane has zer momentum as it moves forward. Thus, momentum is conserved.
This device, on the other hand, does nothing cancel out the increase of momentum it supposedly creates. This is plainly and simply impossible.
I will not even go into the issue of gravity and acceleration, because I suspect it would be beyond you. Please brush up on your basic Newtonian mechanics, at least, before making arguments about it.
It's NEVER both! It's always EITHER, OR! Anything else would be MADNESS!
but the fact remains that it COULD be correct
You are really giving a bit too much credit to a sloppy article about what is obviously pseudoscience.
The article specifically talks about velocity and not acceleration. Even assuming the article is just badly written, and actually means acceleration, the claim that the engine could be used for hovering instead of propulsion shows a total lack of understanding of general relativity, where gravitation and acceleration are indistinguishable.
I think you are trying to interpret the article in a way that makes sense, when in fact the article does not make sense. But even your alternate interpretation does not conform to known laws of physics, such as conservation of momentum.
Oh yes, that was very giggle-worthy, although it could easily be dismissed as sloppy writing by a clueless reporter.
Yes, that's the part where you should finally realize the whole thing is nothing but bullshit.
He's claiming that the effect depends on the absolute velocity of the engine - a concept that has been meaningless ever since we did away with the coelestial aether and Maxwellian electrodynamics.
He's not using relativity, he's using the exact opposite.