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Comment Re: 90 days to fix (Score 2) 129

Really? Any coder able to find issues like this should be able to fix issues like this if they have the proper source code. Most issues are trivial to fix, substituting an unsafe call with a safe(r) call (eg. strcpy vs strncpy) is often enough to fix most issues.

Sure there will be some side cases where it is really hard or there may be better solutions than your patch (eg. I recently found a bug in the MariaDB optimizer which leads to bad data being returned) but then at least if the product on top of it (CiviCRM and Drupal in my case) is also open source, at least I can modify the query to fit my needs even though both Drupal and CiviCRM people say 'not our problem'.

Comment Re:Or you could learn more about (Score 1) 755

But you're supporting said hierarchy by word and probably with money too (if you go to church and put money in the collection scales). By saying you're Catholic you're saying that the pope is your supreme leader and infallible, if you don't you are not a Catholic according to the definition in the Catechesis .

Comment Re: It depends... (Score 1) 335

In my city they went with the option of the company simply sending you an invoice for traffic and parking tickets. An administrative 'judge' can be appealed to but decides only in favor of the company. Since it's not a fine but an administrative fee, you can't get it in a regular court, but if you don't pay it you still lose your license.

Comment Re: Speeding not always an issue (Score 2) 335

The thing is that a heavy wind or snow/rain frequently makes the things go haywire.

Look at those speed displays they have, there is one on a road I frequent and it will trigger under the above conditions. Also being relatively far away the thing will read random values around 40mph for a while until getting closer and any vehicle slightly to the right (slightly over the solid white line) will make the thing display the speed of the car up to a mile behind you (which is a fun game to make the thing display increasing numbers to a car slowing down)

Comment Re:Bogosity (Score 1) 112

What's relevant is whether or not
a) your code uses the insecure portions of the language
b) the security vulnerabilities are remotely exploitable
c) you have not used a workaround

A lot of vulnerabilities within PHP are "if you have a PHP install on the same host that shares a common PHP instance" or "if you do these things in this particular way". I don't think there are a lot of vulnerabilities of the sense that it will drop down to a terminal if you send a special packet to the website.

Comment Re:I'm a Catholic and a scientist. (Score 3, Insightful) 755

Is that the same church that tortured Galileo, censored Copernicus, Bible translations and a host of other scientists and scientific discoveries? Or the same church that promoted anti-semitism until the 1960's? Or the same church that tells it's members to refuse birth control including the pill and the condom?

Comment Re:They're only stealing from banks? (Score 1) 53

Because that's where your taxes will go. How much of your taxes go to people being the victim of identity theft? None. How many times does the FBI/NSA/CIA get involved when one of our citizens' bank account is emptied by hackers? Never.

But if a corporation like Sony gets hacked or the banks get stolen from (even though they can simply restore their databases back to reflect the original amounts afterwards) then there will be a large investigation and the POTUS will get involved etc etc.

Comment Re:Sounds like an awsome place to work (Score 1) 166

From the articles (if they're true), they are treated like rock stars in their country and make more than most people in their country. It doesn't matter how much you make on a world-scale, if I move to Africa with my 'wealth' even though I wouldn't survive more than a few months in the West before being broke, I could probably live there for a decade without working.

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