I guess you don't like being able to upload images/files to a web application.

This (or another in a litany of ) WP vulnerability usually involves uploading a php script which exposes a bunch of extra server-side functionality (download any file, list users, access MySQL dbs...) through WP's file upload manager, which WP seems slow to fix on occasion.

That said, there's no reason a developer couldn't do the useful part of your suggestion —run a checksum of their application files when the upload to the server, then use that to identify anything that's been monkeyed with. I might start doing that, actually.

But there's no way I'm spending a dime with YourHostingCompany(TM), which requires I make simple code changes via VPN. Will you give me SSH access, even?

"Dirty Pretty Things" is the film you're referencing starring the lead actress from Amelie, if I'm remembering correctly.

Out of mod points, or you'd get +1 Awesome.

You must not have watched it, then.

That's Halo's Marathon DNA showing through. The .44 in multiplayer Marathon was devastating. Especially two-fisted.

Seconded.

So too are (should be) his clients.

Yes, please. Go on reading from the Declaration of Independence in a conversation about the Constitution.

I believe biometrics[1] are considered "Something you are" to round out the trifecta with "have" and "know."

[1] NB: Biometrics are bad for a huge number of reasons. (Including, but not limited to: un-revokable. I'll let you ponder the others.)

Looks like a +2 to me at the moment. In fairness, while my closing was factually accurate, it was disingenuous. Though wasn't the London bombing a retaliation for the UK following us into Iraq?

I'm disappointed that i left it in, since it detracts from the points I was really trying to get at.

There's a difference between being independent and self-assured v. not "giv[ing] a rats fuck" what the rest of the world thinks. I was also trying to get the Parent (or anyone else...) to explain what's "sad" about emulating ideas from Europe (or anywhere else...), other than a "not developed here" attitude.

Awesome. And I'm sure you wonder why we got attacked in the first place. Personally, I like traveling, and I'd rather not be spit on when I venture abroad for sightseeing.

And that's intrinsically bad, because...? If you have some example of where they're failing and we're following, then maybe bring that up. But I don't really see how emulating someone else is a "sad thing" in and of itself.

No one has flown planes into any buildings in Europe that I know of.

Now that, sir, is an *interesting* idea.

The other problem is these companies just LOVE to release new editions of textbooks with slightly modified question numbers.

Fortunately some of my college professors would simply photocopy the questions for us realizing this insanity.

Basic K-12 and Undergrad materials and course work do not change that much. Why shouldn't there be open source materials available? If they are publicly funded in any way, it should have been a requirement long ago. I for one used to refuse to sell my books back to the store for pennies on the dollar. It was always better to keep them or give to another student. With open source, more people could afford to go to university.

There is no post-accident blood test to tell if someone was texting when the accident occured. Out of the thousands of rear end collisions, how many do you suppose were texting and got a ticket for failure to stop rather than "texting while driving" or whatever the name of the law is.