Amazingly enough, Comcast (at least here in eastern Massachusetts) doesn't block port 80, though my web site might get 5 hits on a day when I check something on it, so they probably wouldn't care. I think they block port 25 outbound, but I can use their SMTP servers for outgoing mail. I only really use GMail from home these days, so I haven't tried sending mail out through my server lately.
And now somebody that works at Comcast has seen this and is working on fixing the "problem".
I had Verizon DSL a few years ago in eastern/central Maine, and they blocked ports 25 and 80, despite tech support denying it twice when I called them to ask about it. They may have changed their policy since then, but pretty much because of that one thing I refuse to buy from Verizon again.
No you are completely wrong, think tanks perform a valuable service giving thoughtful insight and independant opinion on a variety of wide ranging and often specialist topics.
Yes, it is illegal to publicize the identity of an undercover CIA agent. Yes, Valerie Plame was officially an undercover agent when her identity was publicized. If there were solid evidence that Vice President Cheney was the one that did it, he could be impeached* and removed from office.
* Technically, he could be impeached without solid evidence, but nobody in their right mind would bother if there's practically zero chance of a conviction.
The difference is that something that is legal now may become illegal in the future, and it isn't possible to accurately predict what people will do in the future and whether those actions will be legal or not. Most such people aren't so worried about the legal things they're doing now, but about the things they're doing that are legal now becoming illegal in the future. However, retroactive protection deals with the past (duh, I know). The only reason to need retroactive protection is if actions that have already been taken were illegal at the time. Past events can't be changed, and (in theory) laws cannot be retroactively applied, so it is already known whether past events were legal or not, and legal actions don't need special legal protection.
It's a concept that refers to social networking sites, blogs, stuff like Slashdot and Fark.
If you define "Web 2,0" as a place where lots of people can sign up, some/all of them can post topics, and all of them can post comments, which is all blogs (I feel a little sick just using that word) and Slashdot are, then I've been using Web 2.0 ever since I got on the real Internet in 1998 when they were called message boards. I hear other people were using it even before that.
I would assume (read: hope and pray) that it would require more than just a $50,000 check to register such a domain. Preferably some equally foolproof way of ensuring that it really is a representative of the bank that's registering the domain.
All you suthn'rs think you're all that... Come on up the the end of i-95
Okay, so I'm only from Portland, but I went to college up in Orono. And my girlfriend is from Eastport.
Yeah, Maine has been one of the more moderate states for years. I remember reading some article that listed who had the best chance of being the first woman elected president, and they had Olympia Snowe above Hillary Clinton. I got to meet Senator Snowe briefly last summer, and she's definitely a, uh... interesting person.
The slashdot crowd certainly seems to be pretty strongly anti-patent.
I don't think most of the Slashdot crowd is anti-patent, just as they aren't anti-copyright. I think most of the Slashdot crowd just wants copyright and patents to be handled the way they were originally intended. Copyrights are supposed to expire after a specific, relatively short period of time, guaranteeing that the work would be incorporated into society as a whole, for society's benefit. I think you'll find a lot more people that want 25-year copyrights instead of 100-year copyrights than you'll find people that want no copyrights. Patents would probably get a similar response, with most people wanting 15-year patents on useful, non-obvious inventions, instead of the tons of patents on business methods and interface designs that we get now.
If the state he was working in has "at will" employment laws, no, he doesn't have a case. And he wasn't fired for buying a gun or intending to buy a gun, he was fired for talking in the office about guns.
In the Police state of the U.S.A everyone is guilty until proven innocent. Not the other way around.
I won't argue the general point, but it doesn't apply to this situation. "Innocent until proven guilty" applies to criminal charges, not employment. There were no criminal charges filed.
There are still some grounds that could give him cause for retribution. Imagine if he was let go because the new department head didn't like black people and he has a relative that is black.
Race is specifically listed as a protected class for which you cannot fire someone. Talking about buying a gun and shooting people is not, regardless of it being a joke.
Yup, it is called DateTime. It was after the 5.1.0 fiasco, because they picked the name specifically to not conflict with PEAR. It's a fortunate side effect that it's also a bit more descriptive (the class handles dates and times, not just dates).
I hate to tell you this, but you can not fire people, even contractors, for just ANY reason.
True, you can't fire people based upon age, race, gender, sexual orientation (in some states), or one of a few other reasons commonly referred to as "protected classes". In most states, employment is "at will", meaning you can be fired for any reason other than being a member of one of these protected classes. Owning a gun or talking about buying a gun is, as far as I know, does not qualify you for a protected class.
Yeah, the PHP devs have always put a lot of emphasis on maintaining backwards compatibility. Unfortunately, that has the down side of not being able to fix a lot of mistakes that were made in the past.
PHP never has any security problems, its just people writing bad software in it that gives it a bad reputation.
Are you implying that those two items are mutually exclusive? I would be very impressed with any software project beyond "Hello World" that has never had a security problem. Having said that, a lot of the negative reputation is because people who haven't written more than 10 lines of PHP code think that phpBB and phpNuke demonstrate the only possible way to write PHP. Any language that lets you run shell commands (a very useful ability) will also let you run 'rm -rf/' if you don't know not to ever trust user input. There's only so much a language can do to protect the programmer before people start complaining that they can't do some necessary task.
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Google translates that as "I am called our new East German over lords anyhow welcomely." A new Slashdot meme, perhaps...
Amazingly enough, Comcast (at least here in eastern Massachusetts) doesn't block port 80, though my web site might get 5 hits on a day when I check something on it, so they probably wouldn't care. I think they block port 25 outbound, but I can use their SMTP servers for outgoing mail. I only really use GMail from home these days, so I haven't tried sending mail out through my server lately.
And now somebody that works at Comcast has seen this and is working on fixing the "problem".
I had Verizon DSL a few years ago in eastern/central Maine, and they blocked ports 25 and 80, despite tech support denying it twice when I called them to ask about it. They may have changed their policy since then, but pretty much because of that one thing I refuse to buy from Verizon again.
Yes, it is illegal to publicize the identity of an undercover CIA agent. Yes, Valerie Plame was officially an undercover agent when her identity was publicized. If there were solid evidence that Vice President Cheney was the one that did it, he could be impeached* and removed from office.
* Technically, he could be impeached without solid evidence, but nobody in their right mind would bother if there's practically zero chance of a conviction.
The difference is that something that is legal now may become illegal in the future, and it isn't possible to accurately predict what people will do in the future and whether those actions will be legal or not. Most such people aren't so worried about the legal things they're doing now, but about the things they're doing that are legal now becoming illegal in the future. However, retroactive protection deals with the past (duh, I know). The only reason to need retroactive protection is if actions that have already been taken were illegal at the time. Past events can't be changed, and (in theory) laws cannot be retroactively applied, so it is already known whether past events were legal or not, and legal actions don't need special legal protection.
Have we thanked you for that lately?
Bingo!
I would assume (read: hope and pray) that it would require more than just a $50,000 check to register such a domain. Preferably some equally foolproof way of ensuring that it really is a representative of the bank that's registering the domain.
Yeah, Maine has been one of the more moderate states for years. I remember reading some article that listed who had the best chance of being the first woman elected president, and they had Olympia Snowe above Hillary Clinton. I got to meet Senator Snowe briefly last summer, and she's definitely a, uh... interesting person.
But you were part of England at the time, so it doesn't count. Everybody knows that true Canadians only fight when they're wearing ice skates.
If the state he was working in has "at will" employment laws, no, he doesn't have a case. And he wasn't fired for buying a gun or intending to buy a gun, he was fired for talking in the office about guns.
Yup, it is called DateTime. It was after the 5.1.0 fiasco, because they picked the name specifically to not conflict with PEAR. It's a fortunate side effect that it's also a bit more descriptive (the class handles dates and times, not just dates).
Yeah, the PHP devs have always put a lot of emphasis on maintaining backwards compatibility. Unfortunately, that has the down side of not being able to fix a lot of mistakes that were made in the past.