Comment: Re:Security Through Obscurity (Score 1) 298
Comment: Re:"1/10 of a pound" (Score 1) 617
Comment: Private vs. Commercial Pilot (Score 1) 601
I don't know which flights require TSA screening, but from the FAA's point of view, accepting any money for a plane ride makes the pilot a commercial pilot, which is a whole different licensing category. To get a commercial pilot's license for carrying paying passengers, a private pilot would have to go through additional training, testing, medical examination, drug screening, etc.
In one case, a pilot killed a passenger when he snagged some power lines and plunged his plane into a river. While that was an unfortunate accident, the FAA decided to throw the book at him in part because the pilot had accepted a token payment of $8 from the passenger.
Comment: Re:A sad day, but maybe a catalyst (Score 1) 123
Comment: Durability? (Score 1) 227
Comment: PHP makes it hard to do things right (Score 2) 435
Out of the box, PHP's mysql interface makes you concatenate/interpolate strings yourself to compose the SQL, and you have to manually escape parameters. In short, it requires extra work for programmers to do things right. All of those "Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours" books aren't going to help, either.
In contrast, almost all other programming languages make it easy to do the right thing. For example, Perl DBI and JDBC both encourage you to use '?' placeholders, which are automatically filled in by parameters. It takes no extra work to avoid SQL injection, and your code ends up being cleaner too.
Comment: Also, can't share IDs because Siri is stateful (Score 2) 403
Another thing to consider is that Siri remembers things about you. For example, you can tell it "Justine is my mom", then later say "Call mom". Also, there are sessions — your command can be a interpreted in the context of recent commands. I would guess that the state is saved on the server side and tied to your unique ID. If so, then sharing an ID among multiple users would result in a nasty user experience, and would certainly defeat the point of Siri's more intelligent features.