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by 46Bit 15y ago
Interesting if brutal way of looking at things. However, when you can't trust the Police, protection is something of a wooly construct.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
I give it 12 hours before everyone realises this is a pile of bull.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Heard of it months and months ago, but otherwise your opinions are common to pretty much everyone I know.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Not far from every piece of tech used on the web by a fair % of servers has had holes discovered. If you're trying to say that PHP is so much worse, then just saying that the previous sentence applies to it is meaningless.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Care to give a few examples so we know which angle you're coming at this from?
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by 46Bit 15y ago
When written properly, a PHP app is probably just as secure as one written in any other language.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
It's not though. If you're going to upend PHP in order to make it more like something else, maybe just use something else.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Not surprised at this getting negged, nor at nobody actually writing why.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
My PHP reboot is simple: drop it for more versatile interpreted languages like Ruby & Python, and their respective web frameworks. Loving it, personally.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Unfortunately as time goes on this might be not as free-will a decision. The right of law enforcement to breach our computers for the 'good of the public' will probably only get worse.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Looks awesome - exactly what I've been after to be honest. I'd love you if you could make it work on 10.6 as well...
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by 46Bit 15y ago
That's actually a brilliant way of putting things. Personally, what matters to me most is that the UI very rarely if ever hangs. I don't really mind how long it takes to do things, so long as it doesn't occasionally take 3 seconds to respon
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by 46Bit 15y ago
As regards merchant accounts - what country & typical size/age of business do you tend to work with? Appreciate you've not posted anonymously so might not want to go into things much.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
But it's not technical speculation - he pretty much says he knows nothing about these devices, then assumes they're not too dissimilar from a home PC. More just idle gossip.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Well from the point of view of your typical end users, Java is just a random bit of software.
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Live screencast diving into jQuery(jackfranklin.co.uk)
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by 46Bit 15y ago
This is Mashable talking about real technology: of course they're writing bull.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Two factor auth is more about stopping your login details being nicked and then used at a later time - not atall really a question of SSL, not to mention that as far as I can see this attack here would not be affected by it in the slighest
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by 46Bit 15y ago
The sections on perception are good, though I'd question the connection between wearing nerdy clothes and skills - always looks more like people desperately trying to belong.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Not necessarily so noticable. I've been running my personal site with https and the effect is fairly minor on the whole in terms of load times. Not zero, but low enough that your average user on the other side of the Atlantic wouldn't notic
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by 46Bit 15y ago
I meant why the fact there was a way to do it already actually related to the debate overmuch. This protects people who just use a bog-standard HN account, and further secures all users when actually on the site regardless of login method.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
> That was already possible using HN's OpenID support and a secure provider. Not actually sure what your point is here.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
And yet on the flipside, it should prevent interception of login credentials or page-content filtering.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Ok, why shouldn't we use HTTPS? To me it seems silly that the vast majority of traffic isn't atall encrypted.
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by 46Bit 15y ago
It honestly wouldn't. I browse with some antivirus stripping out my referers and modifying other headers to be less identifying, and it's vanishingly rare for me to get any sort of problem whatsoever. The flipside of this is that knowing wh
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Very true, though I'm still not sure what I think of the balance between privacy and business-friendliness that is best - just like most countries, I suppose... The proportion of sites with Facebook/Twitter/insert-hot-social-site buttons/wi
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by 46Bit 15y ago
I have to agree on some counts. I see a lot of people get burned by companies every year or so - often when they sell and change owners - and then jump ship to just another random more-or-less anonymous webhost. It's not so much about price
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by 46Bit 15y ago
It may just be a side effect of PHP's problems, but even the wrong comments tend to be extremely useful when you run into something weird when coding. Of course it's always more fun to bash people & programming languages, so maybe I'll
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by 46Bit 15y ago
Not so relevant, but as regards the huge amounts we can't reach: there is really. There's huge amounts of all sorts in the Mantle & Core, we just probably can't get there with current technology - or economically in the medium-term.

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