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Usually it doesn't matter, you just let the exe decrypt itself, then grab the decrypted code and rebuild the PE with it.

In which case, I can only assume we are aiming for greater efficiency than the sun. Thanks for your answer!

But you are talking about volumetric efficiency - the portions of the sun where fusion is actually taking place are far more efficient than that surely?

I always believed they were trying to duplicate the suns core, not the whole ball of gas.

Its emulators all the way down...

> Some like to argue that PHP is a beginner's language. I disagree. I think PHP is a fine language for just throwing something together... if you know what you're doing. Otherwise it's just a recipe for SQL injection and XSS vulnerabilities.

I could not agree with you more. Advising beginner programmers to use PHP is like handing out guns in a playground, someone is going to get hurt, and it will probably be the users.

There are far better solutions to this ITireFactory problem than PHP, which puts the tires directly onto the car, but forces you to buy a new car as soon every time you get a flat.

Also, the tires are likely to explode every 16 left turns unless you know about the secret tire fixing button under the dash.

It is true that PHP may save people a few hours in the beginning, but at what expense? How longer does it really take to get a noob running a Sinatra, web.py, dancer or something similar?

The difference between getting it done NOW and getting it done properly is very small in terms of time and huge in terms of safety.

There really needs to be a "good" version of PHP.

The effort required to learn something better than PHP is not equivalent to learning everything about automobile engineering, its more like reading a maintenance manual. Sooner or later, the guy who fixes his car in the middle of the road without knowing anything is going to replace his brake-pads with bits of wood he found on the sidewalk (Not really his fault, someone on a PHP forum has already labeled all the bits of wood as "brake pads")...

This is no excuse. If you want to learn how to do something, effort is required. How much time will that person waste in the long run battling all of the problems and traps PHP brings with it?

I contend that learning a proper language will be of greater benefit to a person just starting web-development, and putting in just a few extra hours at the beginning to get a solid foundation will in fact save them time in the long-run.

Also, giving complete amateurs this loaded, rusty .44 magnum and pointing them at the battlefield is bad for web security and the web in general, they will inevitably lose all the plaintext usernames and passwords they have in their database.

PHP is a blight on the web.

But not all of the money seized was gotten illegally. In fact noone except MU knows that for sure at the moment, but what we can be sure of, is that the amount is less than 100%.

In the robbed bank case, you know exactly how much was stolen and you can prove it, so seize the $100,000 - but should you seize his car and house too, before he has even been tried?

That, and the perspective as he runs on the "takeoff" is completely out of whack.

Actually, when you put it like that, it does sound likely. I am speaking from the point of view of a person who knows very little about these "Kernel wars".

You seem to be saying that given the option of pirating and purchasing, you will always pirate - if that is the case, then you are part of a very small and militant demographic.

I cant think of a single movie, album or piece of software that cant be pirated as easily as it can be bought - yet people still buy them.

Personal and bigoted? Really?

These words apparently mean different things to us.

You probably wouldn't have bought it anyway...

Now THAT is a sensible attitude! Bravo.

Whenever there are large groups of people communicating, someone will find something to be offended at - and as long as it isn't personal or bigoted we need to just ignore it and move on. In this case, Linus' colorful use of language will almost certainly add some amount of weight to his statement.

There is a very long list of bad governments, would you suggest the US should invade them all?

I don't think many people defend the government of Iran, they just don't want to start a war with them and feel that if there is something wrong with the Iranian government, then the Iranians should bloody well sort it out themselves.

I think for most people, $10 IS too much. Although we all talk tough about privacy, most people (even here) don't have much to hide from anyone, and when the difference between definitely secure, and probably secure (in terms of privacy and ownership of data) is $10, it suddenly feels a lot more expensive.

I don't know what you mean, but are you really comparing Zuckerberg to a President?

Right now, it may well work out better for creators who are not as famous as Coelho and C.K.

Exposure is always the biggest problem when starting out, and even when talking about someone like Coehlo, he is certainly going to be read by people who would otherwise never even have heard of him... Which must almost certainly translate into increased sales.

Reverse osmosis filters can already remove salt from water, and far more efficiently as well I believe.

How would they know the incriminating evidence had been wiped though?

> but it's ridiculous to believe that somebody at UMG called somebody at the FBI and said "those gosh darn do-gooders at MegaUpload want to take down our evil empire and offer artists 90%, they must be stopped!" and the FBI complied.

After years of exposure to American media, I actually find this relatively easy to believe as far as conspiracy theories go.

It wasn't initially, they corrected that fairly early in the day though.

"People" dont have to understand. Unless they are legislators trying to write new laws to govern "x", then they MUST understand.

Ah thanks, I missed that!

Stop buying their stuff and you will force them to change.

Wrong morally, or wrong factually?

If factually, then which parts are wrong?

None of the IntelliJ IDEs work properly with OpenJDK.