Is any work being done to improve security?
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It's widely known that PHP is used by a lot of "developers" without much background in writing secure software. As such, the coding techniques used are often less than ideal, and have lead to numerous security problems in the past.
Are the PHP developers actively doing anything to help prevent those without much experience from writing code that can lead to a server being compromised? Not that they should restrict those few developers who do know what they're doing, but they should perhaps be taking a look at making it far more difficult to write dangerous code.
On the hardware front we have AMD and Intel adding support for non-executable stacks to their processors, for instance. GCC has StackGuard and StackShield. I think it's time for the PHP developers to step up to the place and try to limit the possible damage that can be done when using PHP incorrectly.
It's easy to continually blame the inexperienced PHP users for writing insecure code. But I do believe that it is up to the PHP developers to use their skills to help mitigate such problems.
Your attitude sounds like the typical Republican attitude these days: kill everyone and everything, except fetuses.
Don't argue with Daniel Berlin.
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GCC 4.1 Released
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Dan Berlin is one of the best known GCC developers. His contributions have been many. Just a few weeks ago he helped transition the project from CVS to Subversion. If he says it hasn't been released, then it hasn't been released.
No, sir. I just understand what true uptimes are. Most Linux users who brag about having some "massive" uptime (usually under 1000 days) obviously have never used VMS, for instance.
Only three digits of uptime? That's only 999 days, at the most, if you're using days as your measure. There are VMS systems out there which haven't been rebooted in over a decade. Last I checked, there's one VMS on Alpha system at a firm I worked at that hasn't been rebooted since 1996. That was about a month ago, so considering its long uptime, it's probably still up.
Now, if you're measuring stability (as in 99.999% uptime), then VMS most likely is still the champ.
It can often be quite a hassle getting a replacement for such a product. Not only that, but then there's the wait involved. And if they shipped one faulty unit, what's to say that a new unit won't be just as faulty?
What you're talking about is a person's interpretation, which is based on their biases, preferences, interests and other such factors. Reality is reality.
Take the recent invasion of Iraq, for instance. It is _fact_ that innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed by American soldiers and American bombs. That's reality. However, the interpretation of the situation by different people may differ. If you ask a neo-con or a redneck, chances are they'll justify the killing, for whatever reason. A conservative or a libertarian, on the other hand, would most likely point out that it is wrong to kill innocent civilians.
Of course people will have differing interpretations of reality. But reality itself is just that: reality.
Actually, studies have shown that the most intelligent people find a good penis joke very funny. Chess players, engineers, mathematicians and programmers often ranked such jokes as the funniest possible.
It was found that rednecks and religious fanatics, often those with the lowest intelligent, did not find a good penis joke funny.
It's understandable that some animal-rights groups might be against the treatment of some animals by research scientists. They're more against animal testing than they are against science as a whole, for instance. The religious extremists, on the other hand, are often completely against science. They're not against a very specific technique, but against the whole of science.
Again, you're confused. Many Europeans do not resent genetic research. They do not, however, believe it to be correct to use such knowledge in ways that would violate basic human rights. We're talking about using such knowledge to create slaves, for instance. Or to dangerously modify crops.
The people you deem as "anti-science leftists" (many of whom are extremely conservative or libertarian) are often very pro-science. They take a stand against what may very well be considered unjustifiable use of scientific knowledge. We're talking about taking a stand against genetically modified crops, animal testing, and so forth. They're not against the entirety of science, unlike many religious fundamentalists.
Unfortunately, you're in the minority. The aggregate spending by religious extremist rednecks most likely far, far exceeds that which you (and other intelligent people) spend. Even if you'd deal with a company that helped fund such an exhibit, it is quite plausible that they'd lose many times that gain if there were a boycott by the religious factions.
You are correct about the most long-lived civilizations placing an emphasis on education. That has been shown historically time and time again. Such civilizations fail when their focus switches from education and development towards combat and religious extremism.
It may not be a pleasant idea at first, but many academics should consider leaving the US for greener pastures. Many European and Asian countries would gladly welcome true scholars from America who wish to advance knowledge, rather than fool around with religious fundamentalism. The standard of living will most likely be acceptable, and the cultures often far more becoming of scientific progress.
SONY should develop Penis Rights Management (PRM) systems for male geeks. Applying such a system to one's cock would prevent unauthorized use. Of course, since it is designed by SONY it will most likely work in the complete opposite way: women will be enticed to play with a cock using such technology! All of the geeks and nerds out there who can't get any pussy would benefit from such a device. They might even get laid!
Indeed, these scenarios show just how artificial restrictions on knowledge and information are. It is impossible to try to make such an inherently abundant resource scarce, in order to derive profit.
Does using tape in such a fashion violate the terms of the DMCA? If so, could the tape manufacturers be held responsible for making a product that potentially aides in piracy?
Even if the outcome isn't perhaps what was wanted, the fact remains that they still took action against Microsoft for abusing its monopoly powers. The American government, on the other hand, cowered.
Europe has traditionally taken a very strong stance against corporations who abuse their power. While I suspect you may be trying to incite Republicans with your anti-European sentiment, the fact of the matter remains that Europe has the guts to stand up to corporations who want no-good.
They're the only ones who had the balls to truly take on Microsoft, for instance. They also had the guts to say "No!" to the manufactured war in Iraq.
My penis weeps for Opera. I just tried out Opera 8.50 for Linux. Mind you it is far faster than Firefox or Seamonkey (most likely because it is based directly upon the fantastic QT toolkit, rather than on numerous layers over the lacking GTK+). However, it still pales in comparison to Konqueror. Konqueror is fast. It blazes, while Opera chugs along.
Konqueror also feels light, while Opera does not. After all, Konqueror is just a web browser. It does one task, and it does that one task very well. A true UNIX application, one might say. Opera, on the other hand, tries too hard to do everything, much like Seamonkey. And that does not lead to a good user experience. Opera just feels heavy, memory-wise.
Opera was once a fantastic browser, but they caught the same bug that Netscape caught years ago. I like to call it the hyperintegration syndrome. They feel, for whatever odd reason, that it is best to pile as much in as they possibly can. And that leads to a program that just doesn't handle well.
My penis weeps for Opera, and the light, snappy browser it once was.
Tell us more about the hardware. Perhaps it's your inexperience with FreeBSD that is causing your problems. Or perhaps you just plain fucked up while installing it.
Having installed FreeBSD on various hardware, from desktops to laptops, I cannot say that I have run into such a problem. CPU scaling works well with both FreeBSD 5.x and FreeBSD 6.0 on the systems that I have that support it.
And the FreeBSD ports system is far superior to the Gentoo equivalent. Take some time to learn how to use it effectively. Spend half an hour reading the documentation. You'll be amazed at how well it works.
Indeed, FreeBSD is a very versatile system. It is an excellent workstation OS, especially for power users. It shines spectacularly for many server applications. And it can be easily stripped down for embedded systems use.
You shun FreeBSD now. But that is most likely because you have not yet learned its full power.
If the allegations are true, do you really think she was doing it on her own time? Of course not! She was most likely getting paid. That could very well be why she was willing to do it.
Perhaps with all the money you'd make from those lawsuits you could buy yourself a razor and some soap. Then you could take a shower, get rid of your potato chip- and Mountain Dew-infested beard, and maybe then get some pussy.
Such subjective terms as "stupid" and "immature" are irrelevant when it comes to this matter. The fact remains that it is a very effective way of getting across the point that censorship is, to any true American, a very disgusting and unpalatable thing. Any true American should want to vomit violently when they read the works of someone who is in favor of censorship. After all, freedom of expression is what true Americanism is all about.
Again, it does not matter if somebody is "disgusted" by such an image. Disgust felt by a small group of people, or perhaps even an individual, is no reason for freedom of expression to be withheld.
Americanism, at least before it was perverted to the form it is today, stood for freedom for all. Thus anyone who considers themselves a true American (and I don't mean "American" in today's sense of invading foreign nations, killing civilians and torturing innocent people) should be against all forms of censorship.
What you're aiming for would be the equivalent of Christianity without any focus on the teachings of Christ!
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It's widely known that PHP is used by a lot of "developers" without much background in writing secure software. As such, the coding techniques used are often less than ideal, and have lead to numerous security problems in the past.
Are the PHP developers actively doing anything to help prevent those without much experience from writing code that can lead to a server being compromised? Not that they should restrict those few developers who do know what they're doing, but they should perhaps be taking a look at making it far more difficult to write dangerous code.
On the hardware front we have AMD and Intel adding support for non-executable stacks to their processors, for instance. GCC has StackGuard and StackShield. I think it's time for the PHP developers to step up to the place and try to limit the possible damage that can be done when using PHP incorrectly.
It's easy to continually blame the inexperienced PHP users for writing insecure code. But I do believe that it is up to the PHP developers to use their skills to help mitigate such problems.
Your attitude sounds like the typical Republican attitude these days: kill everyone and everything, except fetuses.
Dan Berlin is one of the best known GCC developers. His contributions have been many. Just a few weeks ago he helped transition the project from CVS to Subversion. If he says it hasn't been released, then it hasn't been released.
No, sir. I just understand what true uptimes are. Most Linux users who brag about having some "massive" uptime (usually under 1000 days) obviously have never used VMS, for instance.
Only three digits of uptime? That's only 999 days, at the most, if you're using days as your measure. There are VMS systems out there which haven't been rebooted in over a decade. Last I checked, there's one VMS on Alpha system at a firm I worked at that hasn't been rebooted since 1996. That was about a month ago, so considering its long uptime, it's probably still up.
Now, if you're measuring stability (as in 99.999% uptime), then VMS most likely is still the champ.
It can often be quite a hassle getting a replacement for such a product. Not only that, but then there's the wait involved. And if they shipped one faulty unit, what's to say that a new unit won't be just as faulty?
What you're talking about is a person's interpretation, which is based on their biases, preferences, interests and other such factors. Reality is reality.
Take the recent invasion of Iraq, for instance. It is _fact_ that innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed by American soldiers and American bombs. That's reality. However, the interpretation of the situation by different people may differ. If you ask a neo-con or a redneck, chances are they'll justify the killing, for whatever reason. A conservative or a libertarian, on the other hand, would most likely point out that it is wrong to kill innocent civilians.
Of course people will have differing interpretations of reality. But reality itself is just that: reality.
Actually, studies have shown that the most intelligent people find a good penis joke very funny. Chess players, engineers, mathematicians and programmers often ranked such jokes as the funniest possible.
It was found that rednecks and religious fanatics, often those with the lowest intelligent, did not find a good penis joke funny.
It's understandable that some animal-rights groups might be against the treatment of some animals by research scientists. They're more against animal testing than they are against science as a whole, for instance. The religious extremists, on the other hand, are often completely against science. They're not against a very specific technique, but against the whole of science.
Again, you're confused. Many Europeans do not resent genetic research. They do not, however, believe it to be correct to use such knowledge in ways that would violate basic human rights. We're talking about using such knowledge to create slaves, for instance. Or to dangerously modify crops.
The people you deem as "anti-science leftists" (many of whom are extremely conservative or libertarian) are often very pro-science. They take a stand against what may very well be considered unjustifiable use of scientific knowledge. We're talking about taking a stand against genetically modified crops, animal testing, and so forth. They're not against the entirety of science, unlike many religious fundamentalists.
Unfortunately, you're in the minority. The aggregate spending by religious extremist rednecks most likely far, far exceeds that which you (and other intelligent people) spend. Even if you'd deal with a company that helped fund such an exhibit, it is quite plausible that they'd lose many times that gain if there were a boycott by the religious factions.
You are correct about the most long-lived civilizations placing an emphasis on education. That has been shown historically time and time again. Such civilizations fail when their focus switches from education and development towards combat and religious extremism.
It may not be a pleasant idea at first, but many academics should consider leaving the US for greener pastures. Many European and Asian countries would gladly welcome true scholars from America who wish to advance knowledge, rather than fool around with religious fundamentalism. The standard of living will most likely be acceptable, and the cultures often far more becoming of scientific progress.
You wear you wedding ring on your cock?
SONY should develop Penis Rights Management (PRM) systems for male geeks. Applying such a system to one's cock would prevent unauthorized use. Of course, since it is designed by SONY it will most likely work in the complete opposite way: women will be enticed to play with a cock using such technology! All of the geeks and nerds out there who can't get any pussy would benefit from such a device. They might even get laid!
Indeed, these scenarios show just how artificial restrictions on knowledge and information are. It is impossible to try to make such an inherently abundant resource scarce, in order to derive profit.
Does using tape in such a fashion violate the terms of the DMCA? If so, could the tape manufacturers be held responsible for making a product that potentially aides in piracy?
You forgot the fine.
Even if the outcome isn't perhaps what was wanted, the fact remains that they still took action against Microsoft for abusing its monopoly powers. The American government, on the other hand, cowered.
... are the other recording corporations.
Europe has traditionally taken a very strong stance against corporations who abuse their power. While I suspect you may be trying to incite Republicans with your anti-European sentiment, the fact of the matter remains that Europe has the guts to stand up to corporations who want no-good.
They're the only ones who had the balls to truly take on Microsoft, for instance. They also had the guts to say "No!" to the manufactured war in Iraq.
My penis weeps for Opera. I just tried out Opera 8.50 for Linux. Mind you it is far faster than Firefox or Seamonkey (most likely because it is based directly upon the fantastic QT toolkit, rather than on numerous layers over the lacking GTK+). However, it still pales in comparison to Konqueror. Konqueror is fast. It blazes, while Opera chugs along.
Konqueror also feels light, while Opera does not. After all, Konqueror is just a web browser. It does one task, and it does that one task very well. A true UNIX application, one might say. Opera, on the other hand, tries too hard to do everything, much like Seamonkey. And that does not lead to a good user experience. Opera just feels heavy, memory-wise.
Opera was once a fantastic browser, but they caught the same bug that Netscape caught years ago. I like to call it the hyperintegration syndrome. They feel, for whatever odd reason, that it is best to pile as much in as they possibly can. And that leads to a program that just doesn't handle well.
My penis weeps for Opera, and the light, snappy browser it once was.
As opposed to "news" from the American propaganda agencies (eg. FOX News, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC)?
Who is Christopher Lydon? More specifically, what contribution to the open source community has he made? His name doesn't ring a bell with me.
Tell us more about the hardware. Perhaps it's your inexperience with FreeBSD that is causing your problems. Or perhaps you just plain fucked up while installing it.
Having installed FreeBSD on various hardware, from desktops to laptops, I cannot say that I have run into such a problem. CPU scaling works well with both FreeBSD 5.x and FreeBSD 6.0 on the systems that I have that support it.
And the FreeBSD ports system is far superior to the Gentoo equivalent. Take some time to learn how to use it effectively. Spend half an hour reading the documentation. You'll be amazed at how well it works.
Indeed, FreeBSD is a very versatile system. It is an excellent workstation OS, especially for power users. It shines spectacularly for many server applications. And it can be easily stripped down for embedded systems use.
You shun FreeBSD now. But that is most likely because you have not yet learned its full power.
If the allegations are true, do you really think she was doing it on her own time? Of course not! She was most likely getting paid. That could very well be why she was willing to do it.
Perhaps with all the money you'd make from those lawsuits you could buy yourself a razor and some soap. Then you could take a shower, get rid of your potato chip- and Mountain Dew-infested beard, and maybe then get some pussy.
Such subjective terms as "stupid" and "immature" are irrelevant when it comes to this matter. The fact remains that it is a very effective way of getting across the point that censorship is, to any true American, a very disgusting and unpalatable thing. Any true American should want to vomit violently when they read the works of someone who is in favor of censorship. After all, freedom of expression is what true Americanism is all about.
Again, it does not matter if somebody is "disgusted" by such an image. Disgust felt by a small group of people, or perhaps even an individual, is no reason for freedom of expression to be withheld.
Americanism, at least before it was perverted to the form it is today, stood for freedom for all. Thus anyone who considers themselves a true American (and I don't mean "American" in today's sense of invading foreign nations, killing civilians and torturing innocent people) should be against all forms of censorship.
What you're aiming for would be the equivalent of Christianity without any focus on the teachings of Christ!
Indeed, you are a fucktard. I'm glad you realize that about yourself.