It checks that you do *something* that *could* untaint it. The fact of the matter is a lot of people (read: the same types of people who write shit PHP) still have ample opportunity to screw up.
PHP does have design flaws (though gradually these are being weeded out it has taken longer than it should have) but at the end of the day I think its bad rep has a lot more to do with the kind of 'developers' it has attracted.
Why work to make PHP better when he can help improve another scripting language that is already starting from a better base?
What's stupid about the string escaping functions is something you allude to your self (and the OP did as well), there are to many of them, many of which do either:
A) The same thing as each other.
OR
B) The wrong thing, and are hence deprecated (and should never have been introduced in the first place).
The 'past actions' of Eolas were to get a stealth patent on a remarkably basic and equally vague concept and sit on it for a few years before taking the biggest fish in the pond to court. How is that encouraging?
Sure, they say that now. But there is absolutely nothing to stop them changing their minds and doing so in the future. Other browsers relying on the goodwill of Eolas is foolhardy at best.
PHP6 might not be necessary *now*, but it's not like it is coming out tomorrow anyway. At best it will be around a year off still.
A lot can change in that time. Would you prefer the devs just sit on their arses for the next 12 months and do nothing?
True, I did misinterpret that. I still think it's likely to be higher than actual though. The volume of searches through that box on a daily basis would just be to high.
Sure Google is rich, but they didn't get there by just throwing cash away.
It's a conservative estimate until you use $0.02 per click. I doubt that it is anywhere near that high. Either way there is currently no way of knowing how high/low the price is so any figures are wild speculation at best.
A good, reliable 300W power supply is far, far better than one of the many cheapy 500W ones flying around. While yes the larger number sounds impressive it isn't actually necessary for a *lot* of systems.
I do however find it somewhat disturbing that these guys have basically broken the licensing on the most widespread and well known piece of GPL'd software there is and appear to have gotten very little stick for it thus far.
So government officials aren't openly criticizing the times for releasing the story at all and the government never asked them not to release it originally.
Yeah, no (somewhat successful) attempts by officials to influence the media at all.
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Pretty sure the whole point of it is that it's done in such a way that you can't see it with the naked eye.
When you find a version of IE not made by Microsoft give us a yell.
The first part of your post I agree with but this:
"The problem is that MS Windows does nothing to provide a centralized auto-update feature."
Is some kind of a joke right?
Yeah I realised as soon as I hit submit but was to late to stop the post :p
Because as a last resort I believe it will use 443, so you would have to block SSL as well. That's why packet inspection is required.
It checks that you do *something* that *could* untaint it. The fact of the matter is a lot of people (read: the same types of people who write shit PHP) still have ample opportunity to screw up. PHP does have design flaws (though gradually these are being weeded out it has taken longer than it should have) but at the end of the day I think its bad rep has a lot more to do with the kind of 'developers' it has attracted.
Why work to make PHP better when he can help improve another scripting language that is already starting from a better base?
What's stupid about the string escaping functions is something you allude to your self (and the OP did as well), there are to many of them, many of which do either:
A) The same thing as each other.
OR
B) The wrong thing, and are hence deprecated (and should never have been introduced in the first place).
As someone who works in PHP almost every day, thankyou, I couldn't possibly have put it any better myself.
I'd debate my position as a 'Gnome fanboy' given I use Xfce, I'm simply stating the trend I see in the office.
He is exactly right! Consistently, users choose KDE...
I would love to see that backed up with some actual facts? I'd say the users are pretty evenly divided (this is definitely what I see at work).
Or is it? Generally drive manufacturers stick with 1 gig = 1000 megs, not 1024.
The 'past actions' of Eolas were to get a stealth patent on a remarkably basic and equally vague concept and sit on it for a few years before taking the biggest fish in the pond to court. How is that encouraging?
Sure, they say that now. But there is absolutely nothing to stop them changing their minds and doing so in the future. Other browsers relying on the goodwill of Eolas is foolhardy at best.
Java applets run through a browser plugin champ. They are affected too.
Thanks for playing.
PHP6 might not be necessary *now*, but it's not like it is coming out tomorrow anyway. At best it will be around a year off still. A lot can change in that time. Would you prefer the devs just sit on their arses for the next 12 months and do nothing?
True, I did misinterpret that. I still think it's likely to be higher than actual though. The volume of searches through that box on a daily basis would just be to high. Sure Google is rich, but they didn't get there by just throwing cash away.
It's a conservative estimate until you use $0.02 per click. I doubt that it is anywhere near that high. Either way there is currently no way of knowing how high/low the price is so any figures are wild speculation at best.
A good, reliable 300W power supply is far, far better than one of the many cheapy 500W ones flying around. While yes the larger number sounds impressive it isn't actually necessary for a *lot* of systems.
I'm sure your figures are probably right, but it might be worth quoting an actual source in future.
Oh they can 'fix' it all right. But I'm sure you would also be one of the first in line to have a bitch about them ignoring the robots.txt file.
You are of course correct.
I do however find it somewhat disturbing that these guys have basically broken the licensing on the most widespread and well known piece of GPL'd software there is and appear to have gotten very little stick for it thus far.
Seconded, everyone I know uses MSN these days. Before that it was ICQ.
Because the NetBSD folks claim it is, but it doesn't work as 'advertised'.
So government officials aren't openly criticizing the times for releasing the story at all and the government never asked them not to release it originally.
Yeah, no (somewhat successful) attempts by officials to influence the media at all.
The NSA wiretaps is a pretty poor example given the story was held back for a year at the whim of the government.