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by nemo 12y ago
I initially figured that the work was being done by scholars who knew what they were doing, but from this it doesn't sound like it, and sounds pretty disturbing: http://www.bricecjones.com/blog/the-first-century-go
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by nemo 12y ago
If you said "PHP isn't aggressive enough in removing dangerous or objectively ugly language features" I'd be with you 100%. I was just pointing out that they do sometimes pull some, though I'd agree they could do b
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by nemo 12y ago
If you were a developer familiar with Perl you'd hopefully at least test with perl -T If you had no familiarity with Perl I could see you getting bit by that. After you'd learned enough to be proficient enough to be writing code
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by nemo 12y ago
"PHP does not remove dangerous or objectively ugly language features." I hate to defend PHP, but they have removed some dangerous features. Over the years there have been a lot of dangerous hacks that were deprecated and eventual
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by nemo 12y ago
> username => cgi.param("username"), > password => bcrypt(cgi.param("password")) There's two glaring and obvious bugs right there that would be there if you did a straight port to any other
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by nemo 12y ago
"perl lost because it was unable to do asynchronous processing" That's not really true in two senses: 1) If you're just talking about AJAX request handlers, those are trivial to implement in Perl (I put together a number
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by nemo 12y ago
There were two sides - PHP was eating a ton of share from Perl for people and businesses who just wanted to get some simple web thing going. Sun pulled out the "Java is Enterprise" card early and successfully marketed it as being
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by nemo 12y ago
This was really good. The mix of PHP as a better solution for shared hosting (and its simplicity for beginners) and the horror story of Perl 6 were both big setbacks. Allison Randal wrote on the death of Perl a while back and had some obse
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by nemo 12y ago
The allegations of NSA involvement were regarding things that the article didn't discuss so far as I can tell. They weren't talking about how the server's IP/location was found, they were talking about physically followi
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by nemo 12y ago
I feel like you didn't actually read the article. They were describing some pretty standard LE work where there's no meaningful sense of they phrase "parallel construction" that could really apply.
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by nemo 12y ago
Average passenger car weight has steadily increased in the last 25 years or so. From 1987's 2805 lb curb weight to today's 3239. http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/CAFE/NewPassengerCarFleet.ht... Some
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by nemo 12y ago
"If you run a server with security vunls that are well known and patches available: it gets owned. It's your fault." It's not that MS was being lax about properly hardening their boxes, though. You could DDoS the most h
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by nemo 12y ago
>Are you aware that they use stereotypes to make the parody? Yes, I see what they are doing. It's actually very common to use racist stereotypes in parody and satire. It's also still totally racist to draw huge nosed Jews (an
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by nemo 12y ago
And the Jews?
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by nemo 12y ago
The one with the racist stereotype caricatures of pregnant women enslaved by Boko Haram saying "don't touch our welfare" seems pretty racist to me (the lame French play on words about child-benefits/wefare is revoltingly
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by nemo 12y ago
>They are not racists, you are sadly misinformed. I'm guessing you didn't really check carefully. They do mock Islam (and Judaism), and also publish flat-out racist cartoons. They're not mutually exclusive. They publish
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by nemo 12y ago
Kudos, I guess...
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by nemo 12y ago
It was certainly more than 5, esp. in school where it was more like 5-10%. There were more than 15 kids at the coke party, and they were just one clique among many. I did try to emphasize that those people stood out. There weren't an
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by nemo 12y ago
I grew up in a neighborhood in CA that gentrified fast since it was on the coast so I wound up with a lot of millionaire neighbors (doctors, lawyers, actors, pro sports people, a remarkable number of people who scammed government contracts)
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by nemo 12y ago
They wanted to show they were such l33t hackers that they could even hack down trees?
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by nemo 12y ago
The Xbox can also be damaged by hammers, but could be designed with a more ruggedized case that could withstand that attack. If someone smashed a kid's Xbox on Christmas with a hammer I wouldn't blame the design of the console, I
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by nemo 12y ago
MS might have many flaws, and you might ideologically disagree with many of their practices (hey, I do too), but if you want to pin blame, it's squarely on the attackers who chose to stage an attack to deliberately break people's
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by nemo 12y ago
re: 1 The Lizard script-kiddies have been around for a while: http://krebsonsecurity.com/?s=darkode&x=0&y=0 They have been working on building a group of script-kiddies who learn how to DDOS for a couple years at le
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by nemo 12y ago
Had I been in the class perhaps I'd have understood what the requirements of the quiz were and understood what a "subtraction story" is. Looks like the kid who flunked that quiz did sort that one out. You might not like the
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by nemo 12y ago
I have degrees in philosophy and Classics, speak multiple languages, and am "used to math and critical thinking." I immediately sorted out from the context that "number sentence" = equation, while "story" = wor
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by nemo 12y ago
Honestly if we had kept "New Math" we'd have had made life simpler for the coming generations of programmers/computer scientists. The main changes were introducing boolean algebra, matrices, other tools at a younger age
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by nemo 12y ago
"What prevents them from learning both ways?" Nothing at all, in fact they are actually required to learn both ways. The idea that Common Core is replacing borrowing with left-to-right is just part of a reactionary misinformation
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by nemo 12y ago
Your understanding of sarcasm is highly nuanced.
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by nemo 12y ago
The Lizard Squad clown brigade seem to really thrive off negative attention. Congrats, script-kiddies, everyone everywhere really thinks poorly of you now.
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by nemo 12y ago
>I think the group name "Guardians of Peace" is a fairly obvious allusion to "guarding international peace by preventing Sony from releasing The Interview", and is in line with just about everything they've been

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