But what does it say about the state of programming practice writ large when so many developers believe that their 'rights' are trampled because they cannot write programs for a particular device in a particular language? Or that their 'freedom' as creators is squelched for the same reason?"
It says we have fucking spines, you blind amorphous blob.
You don't have an excuse like 'oh I didn't know this was a porn site!' when caught. You can't just say you were searching Large fresh melons and accidentally found such a smutty site.
Yes, you can. This was addressed ages ago, in RFC 3675.
This is exciting. The knowledge contained within this crater will feed millions and advance the knowledge nessesary for the survival of the Human Race by many years, and reveal the secrets of oil spill clean up as an added bonus!
I find your post very enlightening. Spirit and Opportunity should be supplied with Slashdot accounts and reprogrammed to post discouraging comments every few minutes. That would be far more helpful.
If nobody tries to do anything, nothing will ever get done.
You are my hero. That quote should be posted right above the "Preview" button for every comment.
... the browser will automatically alter the response
This smacks of the thinking behind PHP's magic quotes.
Microsoft's so-called security experts should have known that this was a bad idea, especially if they'd worked with the UTF-7 XSS vulnerabilities. Any time you take a parsed language and haphazardly change the way that it parses, you're opening the door to security holes. That's probably why Dan Bernstein, years ago, said "Don't parse" in his page about qmail security.
Unfortunately I don't think you can "apt-get install fedora".
But you can "apt-get install gentoo", though it won't do what you probably think it does.
Maybe the aliens just stay away from Earth in order to avoid being infected by popular mainstream rap artists carrying viruses such as ILOVEYOU and Monkey.B.
+1 for creativity. -1 million for lack of supporting evidence.
This place just isn't big enough for all of us. We've got to find a way off this planet.
