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To purchase the Homefront license for $544,218.-lanux128 (January 25, 2013, 01:43 AM)
$544,216 too much - a serious bit of crap that game, I hope Crytek can turn it into something half decent.
Now we know why there's been a lot of THQ bundle sales recently-4wd (January 25, 2013, 05:25 PM)
I do have lots of pictures from SIC 2010 here though:-Renegade (January 25, 2013, 01:49 AM)
Not that I can really blame the pHp crowd. Just like you can't be a good employee if you're working for a bad company - you can't become an elegant programmer if you're working with something like pHp. At least from my experience with it. pHp is easily the least elegant of any computer language I've ever seen. And I've worked with COBOL, Basic, and APL so I know ugly when I see it. But in this case, it's more than just the syntax. It's the whole design of the thing (or possibly lack thereof) that makes me want to scream every time I see a listing of pHp code. It's brought the concept of 'quick & dirty' and 'fix it later' programming to a whole new level AFAIC.-40hz (January 25, 2013, 12:59 PM)
OO!! One of the very few editors with ftp access built in. Very tempting just for that.I see that as a kind of anti-feature, aimed at disorganized PHP developers-superboyac (January 24, 2013, 04:27 PM)-f0dder (January 25, 2013, 01:56 AM)
^^ StoicJoker - It's always wonderful to hear you call a spade a spade.You do it with style!
-Renegade (January 24, 2013, 08:10 AM)
StoicJoker Style!-TaoPhoenix (January 24, 2013, 03:59 PM)
And I'd try Jetbrains... I love it!Can you imagine? You're using a text editor, and all of a sudden the installed version you have just stops working until you pay again?! Nobody would ever buy that again! Yes, thank you for being so generous as to allow me to use an old version forever, how kind and unique of you. The only software I know of that works like that is very expensive, custom enterprise software.-superboyac (January 24, 2013, 11:54 AM)
Is Edi freeware?
No, but the offer is fair - you may test Edi for 30 days free of charge and without any obligation. If you like it, you can buy it. You pay only once. The price includes lifetime updates for free. Edi is great value for money.
that's for lifetime updates also.-wraith808 (January 24, 2013, 08:21 AM)
At the risk of sounding cynical: Warning! Warning! Warning!
I've pretty much given up on believing in "lifetime" licenses. Not that it matters all that much in my case. If I see something I want in an upgrade, I usually have no objection to paying for it - as long as it's not just to get a bug fixed.-40hz (January 24, 2013, 08:55 AM)
Edi - Text Editor (PC) on Bits du Jour, Friday 25 January 2013 at $15 instead of $30
http://www.bitsdujou...ware/edi-text-editor
http://www.edi-texte...or.com/en/index.html-Curt (January 24, 2013, 02:56 AM)
The question though to me is what was in the "protocol" that he signed...like if it wasn't followed and such...like consequences. So until that is posted in truth one has to assume that the "protocol" made him a "professional" and that it had a thing in it saying he could be expelled for not following them...-hamradio (January 23, 2013, 12:09 PM)
Hrm, did he actually do anything interesting, or did he just run some scriptkiddeialready-existing tools?-f0dder (January 22, 2013, 09:16 AM)
Report says even Skytech is offering.-cmpm (January 21, 2013, 11:05 PM)
Mr. Al-Khabaz-- get a lawyer before you accept Skytech's "scholarship" or "job offer". My guess is they want you to sign something to prevent any future claims against them. The more generous they are, the greater their perceived liability in this case.
Based on the reported news, it seems that they bullied you into signing non-disclosure and then they disclosed your actions to Dawson. That information was used by Dawson to expel you.
I'm sure there is a Montreal lawyer with a sense of justice who would love to take your case, possibly for little or no cost to you.
Proceed with caution.
@Mouser - FWIW I am on record a few posts back for saying I thought the response seemed unusually harsh and possibly excessive based on the facts made public so far.-40hz (January 22, 2013, 06:03 AM)
Which is pretty much where this keeps going in a circle:
Everyone seems to agree that the punishment was excessive.
Everyone seems to agrees that he totally screwed up.
Yet we're debating what exactly?-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2013, 07:06 AM)
Good point. I think we should get on to what students SHOULD do. i.e.
- Report vulnerabilities
- Don't report vulnerabilities
- Sell exploits to pay for books & tuition
- Publish the exploit on Twitter & PasteBin then watch the SHTF?
-Renegade (January 22, 2013, 12:16 AM)
I'm voting for #4 as it would be the most entertaining~!
-Renegade (January 22, 2013, 07:31 AM)
Having said that if the university had any sense they would have invited him to help with checking the hole wa fixed after he reported it initially.-Carol Haynes (January 22, 2013, 03:40 AM)
I believe all agree the given punishment is not the right thing to do.-cmpm (January 21, 2013, 08:51 PM)
Going in again is where he made his mistake.-Josh (January 21, 2013, 03:24 PM)
When reached for comment Mr. Taza acknowledged mentioning police and legal consequences, but denied having made any threats, and suggested that Mr. Al-Khabaz had misunderstood his comments.