Let me get this straight - you don't like PHP but you code with Ruby? You and I definitely disagree on the definition of "abomination".

This is true in my experience for older children, but, for the first month or two of life, you really do need to make sure they're getting milk every 3-4 hours. But now that our kids are 5 and 2, if they don't eat, it's their choice (especially the five year-old).

His career is sure going into the crapper.

It's obviously a joke, but, that said, courts will not necessarily enforce contracts that are so one-sided as to be entirely unconscionable or ludicrous. I'm pretty sure this fits the definition...

Where? I've been a DH customer for 5 years and I've never been able to recover a password, only reset it. You can see the password when you first set it (i.e. it just confirms that you've chosen XYZ as your password), but after that you can only reset it, which would lead to the conclusion that it's hashed.

Wow, they took down websites... good for them. Last time I checked, none of those organizations actually rely on those websites. Take down the DoJ site with a childish attack? Sure, go for it. But it's not like that will actually affect the day-to-day operations of the department itself.

Your post made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that!

Of course Cake will further push the horrible backwards "your controllers should do all the work and your models are just a thin table wrapper" idiocy

Actually, Cake advocates the opposite - "skinny" controllers and "fat" models. But hey, don't let the facts get in your way.

Funny, I suggest the OP do the opposite. I, along with a lot of other "senior developers" that I know, use Cake for many projects. I'd love to see all of this "awkward black magic and bad practice" stuff, though.

NO - Li3 is NOT the next version of Cake. It is a COMPLETELY different projection written by COMPLETELY different people. It forked away from Cake a long time ago. Please stop spreading misinformation.

Have walled gardens killed everyone's ability to come up with new metaphors for closed systems?

no browser wars, no open Web standards, no Mozilla, no Firefox.

That's a pretty slippery slope. Obviously there probably would have been no Mozilla or Firefox, but who's to say that another browser wouldn't have emerged to start a war, or push open web standards? This is why "what if" scenarios are inherently stupid and pointless: they force you to suppose that nothing else will have changed, but that's not true. Likely another browser would have emerged to fill the void and encourage competition.

Indeed. I am a lawyer too (but not your lawyer!), though in Canada. And up here, while this sort of thing varies from province to province, shopping malls are generally regarded as public spaces, which means that you can't be removed without a good reason. So if you're just standing around, doing something within the confines of the law (e.g. taking a picture), and a mall cop wants to throw you out, you can (attempt to) nail the mall owner for a Charter violation.

... get over yourself. Your data is not that important. Nobody cares.

... except Slashdot didn't write this article.