As a PHP developer at the time, I also dispute the claim that register globals was "just how you did things", in 2003.
Nah, thinking back some more... At least one job did still use PHP 3 in 2002... So, ya, I'll retract this statement. Many people did still use it, and 4.2.0...
Ummm... No. WordPress was first written in PHP3. Before it was even called "register globals". Back when that was just how you did things.
Wordpress 0.7 was first released in 2003. Register globals was first disabled in PHP 4.2 in 2002. So, yes, register globals was deprecated (though it did not throw a warning until later) before Wordpress was released. As PHP 4.0 was released in 2000, a full 3 years before Wordpress, I even question the PHP3 claim (well, I question their reasoning for developing a new product on PHP 3).
As a PHP developer at the time, I also dispute the claim that register globals was "just how you did things", in 2003.
22percent of PHP installs are secure???
The PHP install is secure.
That does not include the code being executed by PHP... just PHP itself.
That patents are hindering innovation.
It only hinders innovation at companies too small to make these deals. Remember that next time you hear we need patents to protect the mythical lone inventor.
The system hinders innovation at Google, Verizon, and every other tech company as well. Verizon's public statement starts right at the top with
Verizon Signs Patent Licensing Deal with Google to Promote Innovation
then continues with
But in high-tech industries like ours, the patent system can be exploited to get in the way of innovation.
Verizon believes that even high-tech giants like themselves are hindered by the system. Hence the deal. I agree that small-time inventors are hurt more as they are unable to strike these deals, but that does not mean the system only hinders them.... else there would be no need for this deal.
Case closed.
Those felons are taxpayers, aren't they?
Absolutely you bet! Just the other day I stopped at H&R Block to get some advice on reducing my liability (TAX liability lol!), but they couldn't answer my questions. I'll pose them here in the hopes that you or somebody else can help.
If I hold the drugs for a year, do I pay capital gains on the increased value as a commodity? If the value goes down, do I get to deduct the loss? Do I get to deduct the depreciation of my submarine? As I require all my sales reps to wear a blue flag on the left side and provide it myself, could I reduce my tax burden by investing in a handkerchief factory? Can I deduct the cost of the "first one" I offer to all new customers?
That is just me! How about my sales representatives? Do they get to deduct the cost of the baking soda they cut the coke with? Or does that come out of their own pocket?
And now Obamacare is just making this harder! I'm going to have to cut back hours because I can't afford the health insurance costs!
This allows Microsoft (and any multi-national) additional power to exempt themselves from various US law by shopping around for favorable laws protecting their digital assets. I'm sure there is at least 1 small, poor, developing, (corrupt?) nation out there that would love to accept a few hundred million dollars to build a datacenter and pass a couple "fuck you America!" laws.
Though I also have to admit the court is not the place to prevent that. There are other ways to deal with this problem. Such as passing laws requiring US companies to submit to this and other US court orders as if all assets were stored in the US as long as US persons have electronic access to those assets. Let the company deal with the trouble of complying with Ireland's laws at the same time as US law (maybe by keeping US customer data in the US and European customer data in Europe)... or split up so they can lawfully and truthfully state "Sorry, Microsoft Corp does not control Microsoft Ireland, Ltd. We just do business with them."... and thus forgo their tax loopholes.
Yes, but putting your own personal convenience above the well being of others simply makes you an asshole.
So what does that make you?
Buying a PC so you can work & play conveniently while the lowly wretches that mined the heavy metals required to build it are dying in a ditch.
At least the residents in these communities can claim ignorance of your philosophy.
*everybody* chooses personal convenience over the wellbeing of others, every day, always.
So we're not talking about the FBI or NSA using this to find out you have irritable bowel syndrome.
(chances are they already know from other sources like Facebook anyway...*tin foil hat*).
and they likely wouldnt care anyway (life is not a hollywood movie).
You're right. They don't care about that.
But they do care about things like prescription habits (Your receiving & your doctor's prescribing), GSWs, abortions (Did you forget Republicans are still trying to ban those?), stem cell treatments, assisted suicide, plastic surgery, and any other medical procedure they're trying to restrict or ban, or they feel indicates criminal activity (too many chemical burns? Maybe you have a meth lab).
Just because you or I can't think of a way to abuse the data now, doesn't mean the Federal Government won't figure out a way to abuse you in the future, using the data. Yes there are legitimate reasons for the Feds to have the data, but unfortunately, as has been proven over, and over, and over again, they can't be trusted.
or even a resort dachau
I hear it's a gas, but be decisive - once you've made a bookingwald it's difficult to auswitch.
Jew makin some horrible puns. Anne Frank-ly, I don't appreciate them.
Changing a pronoun is not worth of developer resources. I would have reversed it too -- we don't need everyone's principled opinions infiltrating the codebase and starting problems between people's values and beliefs.
The thing is, the change was done by some third party. Rejecting it and justifying actually took *more* work than just accepting it.
THIS time. When the next 1,273 "single word in a comment" submissions come in to be reviewed, is the total time spent on them still 0? He is "not interested in trivial changes like that." Accepting one invites more.
1. Any and all laws can be twisted and abused. Your litmus test approves of only anarchy or automatons with no imagination.
2. The law is 200 years old. Its not new. *Eventually* seems to be a very long time in this case.
The law simply gives the courts some teeth to do what it needs to do. It is vague in what it allows, requiring reasonableness and interpretation, but that is the very basis of our government. The Constitution uses words like "reasonable" all over it, requiring the readers to think about what is in the best interest of society (or themselves if they're inclined that way).
By your standards of law making it seems our entire system of government and every law on the books, since they all use the vague Constitution as their backing and are therefore open to interpretation and abuse, are "bad".
It is better to live rich than to die rich. -- Samuel Johnson
