Reading the referenced article, I dont see any indication that there's a "Two-Tiered Internet" bill in Congress right now. All it said was that the lobbyists are trying to get one to happen, not that they had succeeded. And I havent seen any other good indication that any such thing has occurred. Had it happened, im sure the EFF would have already jumped on that like white on rice.
Bottom line is we just need to stay sharp. Pound the hell out of your Congressman/Senator's Door/Phone/Email and tell them what you expect to be done. They work for *YOU* afterall, not for the big corporations (or at least thats the way its *supposed* to be, not always the way it works these days).
If they violate your trust, and keep their own agenda, then FIRE THEM. Vote them out. If a suitable candidate cant be found, dont vote for that office. Believe me, the statistics will show if a group strongly opposes one or more candidates when they see that X number came to the polls on election day, and of those X number, theres a big difference in how many people actually voted for either of the corrupt candidates, and how many didnt.
It will send a message.
In the meantime, make some noise, and not just here on/. but also in the community (requires + 5 resistance to sunlight). Get out, and spread the word about how our elected representation is robbing us of our rights, and handing them over to the big corporations for the highest bid.
PHP is no mor eor less secure than any other programming language. As someone else just mentioned.
I have had to argue this point for months with the CIO/CEO of my company, who were under the same impression. They had the idea in their heads that PHP caused all kinds of havoc, from security issues, to search engine optimisation issues, etc.
Eventually I convinced them that its all in how a language is implemented, how the code is written, and how various requests and such are handled.
The vast majority of PHP-related security vulnerabilities are the result of a variable that was either deprecated, but never removed from the code, or just a check variable that the developers never thought anyone would find and abuse.
The bottom line is, whenever you deal with any kind of external data coming into your program, in PHP, C++, Java, VB, or anything else, if you do not check the sanity of that data coming in, you will have serious problems.
Use whatever programming language you like, just remember to SANITIZE ALL USER DATA/QUERY DATA before processing!
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Reading the referenced article, I dont see any indication that there's a "Two-Tiered Internet" bill in Congress right now. All it said was that the lobbyists are trying to get one to happen, not that they had succeeded. And I havent seen any other good indication that any such thing has occurred. Had it happened, im sure the EFF would have already jumped on that like white on rice.
/. but also in the community (requires + 5 resistance to sunlight). Get out, and spread the word about how our elected representation is robbing us of our rights, and handing them over to the big corporations for the highest bid.
Bottom line is we just need to stay sharp. Pound the hell out of your Congressman/Senator's Door/Phone/Email and tell them what you expect to be done. They work for *YOU* afterall, not for the big corporations (or at least thats the way its *supposed* to be, not always the way it works these days).
If they violate your trust, and keep their own agenda, then FIRE THEM. Vote them out. If a suitable candidate cant be found, dont vote for that office. Believe me, the statistics will show if a group strongly opposes one or more candidates when they see that X number came to the polls on election day, and of those X number, theres a big difference in how many people actually voted for either of the corrupt candidates, and how many didnt.
It will send a message.
In the meantime, make some noise, and not just here on
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger, MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!...
Do your jumping-jacks/squats with the badgers!
PHP is no mor eor less secure than any other programming language. As someone else just mentioned.
I have had to argue this point for months with the CIO/CEO of my company, who were under the same impression. They had the idea in their heads that PHP caused all kinds of havoc, from security issues, to search engine optimisation issues, etc.
Eventually I convinced them that its all in how a language is implemented, how the code is written, and how various requests and such are handled.
The vast majority of PHP-related security vulnerabilities are the result of a variable that was either deprecated, but never removed from the code, or just a check variable that the developers never thought anyone would find and abuse.
The bottom line is, whenever you deal with any kind of external data coming into your program, in PHP, C++, Java, VB, or anything else, if you do not check the sanity of that data coming in, you will have serious problems.
Use whatever programming language you like, just remember to SANITIZE ALL USER DATA/QUERY DATA before processing!