That's because it's PHP apps that tend to suck, not PHP itself. Since it's so easy to learn (especially for people who've used anything C-ish), you'll get all sorts of newbies doing stupid things, like forgetting that you can't trust user input or making insane database requests (like, 'SELECT *' and processing half a terabyte of a database dump).
Well actually following the ridiculous law is hardly the right way to protest it. Just make sure your less-than-$1M insurance covers theft via police harassment should your argument go badly, and take out the storage medium first.
People surely don't list proficiency in software as generic as a word processor on their resume (unless they're applying for a position as a secretary)? More specialized stuff like Photoshop or 3DS Max is one thing, but typing and printing to PDF is pretty damn standard across all software. I mean, my resume says something to the effect of "proficient in HTML, CSS, and PHP with MySQL; familiar with Javascript and AJAX," not "master of TextMate." Software is a tool, results are the outcome of skills.
Mandatory to implement, or mandatory to use? There's no reason to have your desktop encrypted, though I can see the validity in the claim of having HD content protected, no matter now much I disagree with it. As it so happens, you can just use AnyDVD HD and disable the ICT on HD movies that require HDCP for full-res playback and make your older 1080p display work its wonders.
Not only that, but this one's rather dangerous. Go to m.utorrentmui.com (or just visit it from any phone that has an address bar) and watch all of the details being passed along as a GET request as plaintext. Honestly, what's the point of obfuscating the password field on the login page when you're going to display it in the address bar? Neither of Azureus' plugins nor uTorrent's WebUI does this as far as I can tell, and both are considerably better in my opinion. Hell, I've now got both of them running and get to take my pick by which port I select when I'm on the road.
Oh big deal. If you can't teach your kid not to get in a stranger's car, you've failed at parenting. The threats haven't changed, just the rules. Learn them, and teach your kids accordingly.
Let's not forget that there's OS X underneath as well, which is certainly more patchable than most phone operating systems. Which is probably for the better, as it'll be one of the most-targeted phones given its initial popularity and notoriety. Plus, we can probably assume that any OS X exploits found, or at least for Safari, would exist on Macs and iPhones alike.
Like so many books, I'd say it doesn't get too intriguing until later on. Considering this is a 4000-odd page series, I'd give it more than the first few pages. I love the series, but I wasn't especially interested until probably the fifth or sixth chapter (though it's certainly a fast read).
As far as I'm aware, they only offer hardware-level encryption and decryption (and, as such, kick the pants off of Intel and AMD in tests that take advantage of that hardware). But it's been a while since I looked into Via chips so I could well be outdated or flatly wrong.
The code may look beautiful, but the content management back-end is one of the most confusing I've ever dealt with. That, or I was just expecting it to act too traditionally and missed something fantastically obvious. For all the praise I've seen it receive, I expect the latter to be the case.
I certainly hope it's neater under-the-hood than Wordpress is (I haven't examined the source at all). I went about starting to write my own theme templates for WP... the inconsistencies throughout never cease to amaze me. And the inefficiency? Wow. If I weren't concerned about a) porting over my existing data and b) XML-RPC/trackbacks/automated stuff that I don't understand in great depth, I'd just write my own blog software from scratch. It may be feature-rich, but almost every function that dumps out actual HTML calls up three levels of sub-functions. I mean... was a replacement for echo() really necessary?
And yet, according to some poor paranoid soul, still contains multiple security flaws. I'll wait for the proof-of-concept before starting to worry. Or update to the English 2.0 "'sup, bitches?!" version.
Okay, I was talking about 22Mbps bi-directionally, and certainly not during spring break when nobody else was trying to use the connection, but 600KBps is cool too.
As a slashdotter, I doubt it, but could you have confused Mbps with MBps?
When I was on Comcast (actually, come to think of it, I think I am here too), I usually got speeds right around what was advertised. Hell, I got a speed boost when they took over Adelphia.
You remind me of the time that I single-handedly saturated half the pipe for the entire school with a couple of unusually fast torrents. Oh, what I wouldn't do for a personal T3...
Technology changes. You're certainly by no means obligated to have a landline (I know tons of people who don't have one anymore, in favor of a cell). Likewise, you can't choose an internet connection speed half of what's offered at half the price because that's good enough for you. When fiber is rolled out and has replaced copper, I don't see why it wouldn't allow for upgraded services at the old copper-based prices (adjusted for inflation). In fact, I think it's a legal obligation for them to do so due to all these odd government subsidies and public land use laws.
You can change the branding while retaining all of the existing data. The only @gmail.xx emails that would likely be affected here are gmail.de. There's no way they'd kill off @gmail.com, though it would be entirely plausible that they'd add in @googlemail.com or something of the same nature were they to change the branding.
I just pray that Leopard's Finder doesn't flip out if a network share suddenly goes missing, as Tiger's does. It's enough of a pain that I need to fully quit out of Azureus and iTunes which I have configured to do all of their storage on a network drive, and it's entirely my fault. But when my computer flips shit and locks up for fifteen minutes because I unplugged the network cable before unmounting all the shares... you get the idea. An auto-mount option, preferably with location-based configuration (sort of how I use MarcoPolo.app right now, with its scripting tools) would be great, but I'd be content if it simply gracefully disconnected from network shares that have become unavailable.
I'm not reading TFA, but the summary makes a valid point about uses of things like:hover in CSS. I made myself a little iPhone launcher homepage thing in anticipation of getting one (though not the first day) and it uses tr:hover and img:hover in CSS to achieve an iTunes-esque stock checker and opacity-reactive buttons for several bookmarks (if you're so inclined, check it at http://www.firehed.net/iphone).
I'm not really concerned about the multi-touch - I don't think it'll be used in websites for anything other than zooming. But if I just drag my finger around in the same way that I'd move my mouse around the screen, are all my pointless pretty effects going to look right? In the end, it doesn't matter in the slightest - they're entirely superfluous visual effects for the sole purpose of making it feel like a Mac app (since it's about as close as we'll get), and have absolutely no impact on the usability of the site. I might not get the 'highlighted song' look when I'm hovering over (resting my finger on) a line in the stock quote table, but oh freakin' well.
The site works in Safari. If the:hover class works based on where your finger is (or if it has a proximity detecting screen...!), so much the better. If not, I can still click (poke) the links and get to the same place. Though by the sounds of it, my Pandora link won't do much good, between the apparent lack of Flash support and internet radio likely to be murdered by Congress in a few days time.
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That's because it's PHP apps that tend to suck, not PHP itself. Since it's so easy to learn (especially for people who've used anything C-ish), you'll get all sorts of newbies doing stupid things, like forgetting that you can't trust user input or making insane database requests (like, 'SELECT *' and processing half a terabyte of a database dump).
Don't worry. This doesn't have a catchy acronym; it won't get voted in.
Well actually following the ridiculous law is hardly the right way to protest it. Just make sure your less-than-$1M insurance covers theft via police harassment should your argument go badly, and take out the storage medium first.
People surely don't list proficiency in software as generic as a word processor on their resume (unless they're applying for a position as a secretary)? More specialized stuff like Photoshop or 3DS Max is one thing, but typing and printing to PDF is pretty damn standard across all software. I mean, my resume says something to the effect of "proficient in HTML, CSS, and PHP with MySQL; familiar with Javascript and AJAX," not "master of TextMate." Software is a tool, results are the outcome of skills.
Mandatory to implement, or mandatory to use? There's no reason to have your desktop encrypted, though I can see the validity in the claim of having HD content protected, no matter now much I disagree with it. As it so happens, you can just use AnyDVD HD and disable the ICT on HD movies that require HDCP for full-res playback and make your older 1080p display work its wonders.
Awesome. I'd been looking at Infrant units, but those seem even better. I wonder how I'd missed them.
Not only that, but this one's rather dangerous. Go to m.utorrentmui.com (or just visit it from any phone that has an address bar) and watch all of the details being passed along as a GET request as plaintext. Honestly, what's the point of obfuscating the password field on the login page when you're going to display it in the address bar? Neither of Azureus' plugins nor uTorrent's WebUI does this as far as I can tell, and both are considerably better in my opinion. Hell, I've now got both of them running and get to take my pick by which port I select when I'm on the road.
What NAS? Off-the-shelf unit or custom-built? I'm in the market, and something with a bit-torrent client built in would be a huge boon.
Oh big deal. If you can't teach your kid not to get in a stranger's car, you've failed at parenting. The threats haven't changed, just the rules. Learn them, and teach your kids accordingly.
Let's not forget that there's OS X underneath as well, which is certainly more patchable than most phone operating systems. Which is probably for the better, as it'll be one of the most-targeted phones given its initial popularity and notoriety. Plus, we can probably assume that any OS X exploits found, or at least for Safari, would exist on Macs and iPhones alike.
Time for a new keyboard, I think.
Like so many books, I'd say it doesn't get too intriguing until later on. Considering this is a 4000-odd page series, I'd give it more than the first few pages. I love the series, but I wasn't especially interested until probably the fifth or sixth chapter (though it's certainly a fast read).
As far as I'm aware, they only offer hardware-level encryption and decryption (and, as such, kick the pants off of Intel and AMD in tests that take advantage of that hardware). But it's been a while since I looked into Via chips so I could well be outdated or flatly wrong.
The code may look beautiful, but the content management back-end is one of the most confusing I've ever dealt with. That, or I was just expecting it to act too traditionally and missed something fantastically obvious. For all the praise I've seen it receive, I expect the latter to be the case.
I certainly hope it's neater under-the-hood than Wordpress is (I haven't examined the source at all). I went about starting to write my own theme templates for WP... the inconsistencies throughout never cease to amaze me. And the inefficiency? Wow. If I weren't concerned about a) porting over my existing data and b) XML-RPC/trackbacks/automated stuff that I don't understand in great depth, I'd just write my own blog software from scratch. It may be feature-rich, but almost every function that dumps out actual HTML calls up three levels of sub-functions. I mean... was a replacement for echo() really necessary?
And yet, according to some poor paranoid soul, still contains multiple security flaws. I'll wait for the proof-of-concept before starting to worry. Or update to the English 2.0 "'sup, bitches?!" version.
Except that this time, it was actually legal, legitimately free content.
Not that I'm implying that I've ever used Bit-torrent for anything else...
Okay, I was talking about 22Mbps bi-directionally, and certainly not during spring break when nobody else was trying to use the connection, but 600KBps is cool too.
As a slashdotter, I doubt it, but could you have confused Mbps with MBps?
When I was on Comcast (actually, come to think of it, I think I am here too), I usually got speeds right around what was advertised. Hell, I got a speed boost when they took over Adelphia.
You remind me of the time that I single-handedly saturated half the pipe for the entire school with a couple of unusually fast torrents. Oh, what I wouldn't do for a personal T3...
Technology changes. You're certainly by no means obligated to have a landline (I know tons of people who don't have one anymore, in favor of a cell). Likewise, you can't choose an internet connection speed half of what's offered at half the price because that's good enough for you. When fiber is rolled out and has replaced copper, I don't see why it wouldn't allow for upgraded services at the old copper-based prices (adjusted for inflation). In fact, I think it's a legal obligation for them to do so due to all these odd government subsidies and public land use laws.
You can change the branding while retaining all of the existing data. The only @gmail.xx emails that would likely be affected here are gmail.de. There's no way they'd kill off @gmail.com, though it would be entirely plausible that they'd add in @googlemail.com or something of the same nature were they to change the branding.
If 2.4GHz is the resonant frequency for water molecules, why the hell doesn't my WiFi keep my coffee hot?
Looks like they had someone with some sort of colorblindness hit up an osCommerce stylesheet.
I just pray that Leopard's Finder doesn't flip out if a network share suddenly goes missing, as Tiger's does. It's enough of a pain that I need to fully quit out of Azureus and iTunes which I have configured to do all of their storage on a network drive, and it's entirely my fault. But when my computer flips shit and locks up for fifteen minutes because I unplugged the network cable before unmounting all the shares... you get the idea. An auto-mount option, preferably with location-based configuration (sort of how I use MarcoPolo.app right now, with its scripting tools) would be great, but I'd be content if it simply gracefully disconnected from network shares that have become unavailable.
I'm not reading TFA, but the summary makes a valid point about uses of things like :hover in CSS. I made myself a little iPhone launcher homepage thing in anticipation of getting one (though not the first day) and it uses tr:hover and img:hover in CSS to achieve an iTunes-esque stock checker and opacity-reactive buttons for several bookmarks (if you're so inclined, check it at http://www.firehed.net/iphone).
:hover class works based on where your finger is (or if it has a proximity detecting screen...!), so much the better. If not, I can still click (poke) the links and get to the same place. Though by the sounds of it, my Pandora link won't do much good, between the apparent lack of Flash support and internet radio likely to be murdered by Congress in a few days time.
I'm not really concerned about the multi-touch - I don't think it'll be used in websites for anything other than zooming. But if I just drag my finger around in the same way that I'd move my mouse around the screen, are all my pointless pretty effects going to look right? In the end, it doesn't matter in the slightest - they're entirely superfluous visual effects for the sole purpose of making it feel like a Mac app (since it's about as close as we'll get), and have absolutely no impact on the usability of the site. I might not get the 'highlighted song' look when I'm hovering over (resting my finger on) a line in the stock quote table, but oh freakin' well.
The site works in Safari. If the